How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.