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

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

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

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

No one ever swung too slowly.