No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

No putt is too short to be despised.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

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.

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.