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.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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.

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

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

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