You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.

I love the golf courses because it brought the best out of me. It made me prepare, made me work at it, made me do the things I needed to do to be better, and that's what I loved about USGA events. If you couldn't handle it, then you got beat, and that's OK.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.