You must play boldly 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...

I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it...

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

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

Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

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

I think I’ve heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don’t dress very well.

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it’s a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That’s close to impossible, but...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it’s been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It’s a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of...

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

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.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

I like my airplane. It’s as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn’t properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact...

The road to success is always under construction.

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 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.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn’t think I’d last too long. Nothing physical – they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a...

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

You don’t go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you’re building a golf course.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay...

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t...

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for...

The more I practice the luckier I get.

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...

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the...

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950’s, once...

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.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Every day I play golf, that’s my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at...

I’m not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that’s a...