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

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

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.

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.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.