The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.