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

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.

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

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.

No one ever swung too slowly.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.