I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.
I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple – I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.
I think I’ve heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don’t dress very well.
I didn’t get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.
Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.
The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you’re supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.
I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
Timing is everything in life and in golf.
I have a psychological feeling about things – and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.
A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.
When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn’t smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I’m too nice a guy.
One thing I’ve learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won’t float.
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time – that’s being alive.
Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I’m very pleased and proud of that.
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.