Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

The holes are numbered.

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.

I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it.

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.