“There’s a time in everybody’s life they really don’t want to talk to people: they want to get away from talking or being on the phone and stuff.”

I learned through the ‘Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,’ the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or ’69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon… So that’s kind of how it all started for me.

I hate a mess.

I live a boring life, but it’s perfect for me.

I’m not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can’t make money gambling.

It sucks getting old.

I feel like I’m the Babe Ruth of golf.

There’s nothing better than competitive golf.

I’ve screwed up a lot, but I’ve always admitted it.

I love the European tour. I always have. But my home is the United States. That’s where I would rather play.

I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.

I’m a guy who’s either going to go full bore, or I’m not going to do it at all.

It wasn’t a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.

The U.S. Open is not John Daly’s style of golf.

I can’t stand to work out. I can’t stand to do a sit up; you know, I can’t stand to run.

Pretty much my whole career, I have been aggressive. I have always been a guy that goes at pins. That’s kind of the way I’ve been all my career, and I don’t know, really, if I can change.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you’re not playing competitive golf.

I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’