The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

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

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

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

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.