The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.