There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them."

The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.