Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.