If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.