Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

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

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.