If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

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.

No one ever swung too slowly.

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

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

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

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.