To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.