After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.
I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
He told me just to keep the ball low.
Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.
If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.
Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.
When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.
Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.
Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.
I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.
A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.
I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.
Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.
When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.
I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.
Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.
Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.
When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.
I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.
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