Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

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.

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

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

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.