Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

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

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.