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

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.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

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

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

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.