I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

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

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.

I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

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

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.