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

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

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.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

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.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.