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

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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.