When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.