I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

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

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

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

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.