“Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.”

“The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.”

“I don't have any hesitation saying I've traveled more miles than any human being who ever lived. I've been doing it for 60 years.”

“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.”

“If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”

“There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”