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.

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.

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

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

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.