When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

It was my last hurrah to win in my hometown. Harding was a special place to say goodbye.

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.’

In those days, it was as good as any country club around, … The golf course was immaculate. Everyone really took care of it, they fixed their ball marks and divots. And if someone did...

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

There was not a missed shot in the whole round. It seems we were tying ever hole with birdies [Only three holes were halved with pars, the first, eleventh and fourteenth].

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...

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...

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

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.

My father was a man of few words.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

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

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.

Nobody, not even Palmer, is bigger than the Game, … I firmly believe that he did wrong and that he knows that I know he did wrong.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

You can’t be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus until you do it. But… after having dinner with Tiger, he’s the most mature 18-year-old golfer I’ve known.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Jack [Nicklaus]’s got to start thinking about when it is time to retire.