Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.
I had a system, and the system worked.
Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it’s imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.
I’m in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.
Know how to win by following the rules.
Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I’m doing, I guess I’ll keep doing it.
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
Winning is a drive, it’s a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.
Don’t be ashamed to play safe.
When I was growing up, they had just found radio.
I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don’t really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.
I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn’t sacrifice my life. I’ve enjoyed it. I’d love to do it again the same way.
I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they’re young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.
If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.
I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.
On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it’s still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.
When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.