I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.