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.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

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

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

What abandoned course is that?

I can't promise not to make you mad. I can't promise that I won't hurt you. All I can promise is that I want you in my life, and I'll do anything to keep you there.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

You have to give to be able to receive.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.