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My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.

My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

My mom's been having a hard time lately. She just found out that she has to have both of her breasts removed - if she's ever going to be good at golf.

My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

My style of play won't ever change, because I enjoy that aggressive style of golf. It allows me to play my best. When I attack pins, I stay more focused. I get more into the shot and, consequently, I get more out of the shot and out of my game by playing aggressive.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

"My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.

My wife gave me a book before we got married, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss. She was trying to tell me something, about what I was capable of, but I didn't get it. Over time, I've sort of lived the message in that book, and I couldn't have without what golf taught me. So I put it in my bag while I played the Old Course, and on the last hole when I posed on the Swilcan Bridge, I held it up.

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots.  It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players.  And the only answer to that is practice.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

No golfer can ever become too good to practice.

No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.