[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.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

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.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.