I couldn’t say my own name when I was 12.

You can’t make good scores happen. You’ve got to let it happen.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

All of us have an ‘inner clock,’ a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Retirement isn’t so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of ‘Matlock,’ and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

People thought I was cocky because I didn’t talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I’d say, ‘I am’ because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He’d say, ‘It doesn’t take any talent to do that.’

After you have the basics down it’s all mental.

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.