Occupation: Professional Golfer Birth: September 10, 1929 Death: September 25, 2016
The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm..
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment..
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman..
As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it..
I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game..
I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to underst….
Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying….
When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that sy….
I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and ….
I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years..
Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations..
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf..
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive..
I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with th….
Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a ….
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done..
The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never….
Swing your swing. I know, I did..
Don't be ashamed to play safe..
I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt ….
If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it..