I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

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.

No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

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.