Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

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.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

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