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.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

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