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

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

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.

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

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

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.