“It is not a dreamlike state but the somehow insulated state that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical it is not only spiritual it is something of both on a different plane and a more remote one.”

“Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.”

“I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.”

“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”

“Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”

“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”

“I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.”

“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.”