The game is meant to be fun.

You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.

Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.