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Good golf begins with a good grip.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.
Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.
I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it
Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?
The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.
I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.