I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

Routine is the death to heroism.

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.