The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

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.

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

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.