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The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.

The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

The holes are numbered.

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.

The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

The media says, "How in the world can you do this? You're here, you're in Great Britain, you're in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you're talking about your golf course?" Trump says, "Yeah, and you know what? The falling pound is even gonna help my business here.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

The older I get, the better I was.

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.