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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs.

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.

Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.

How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

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

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.