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

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

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.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.