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

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

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.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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

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.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.