Frankly, I’m not much for funerals unless it’s absolutely an obligation. I don’t feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they’re alive.
The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.
Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
Swing your swing. I know, I did.
I would never felt good if I hadn’t experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
You must play boldly to win.
I look back, it taught me something – it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
Players need to remember they didn’t make golf. Golf made them.
If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.
A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.
I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can’t walk 18 holes, I’ll pack it in.
Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
If you’re stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.