“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 lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.”

“My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”