“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.”

“I have supped full with horrors.”

“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”