I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.