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I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.
I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.
The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.
I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.
If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.
I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.
If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.
I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
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.
The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
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 still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.
I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.
I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.
I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.
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.
I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it.
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
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.
My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.
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.
For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.
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.
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.
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've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.
In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.
I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.