“I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems.”

The greatest thing for me is when someone comes up and says, ‘My son started playing golf because of you,’ or, ‘I started playing golf because of you,’ and all that.

Golf is day-to-day. It’s shot to shot; it’s not four days at a time.

I think people relate to me because of the ups and downs I have had. I mean, I’ve shared a lot of strong emotions in my life, that I think maybe ’cause they believe I’m not scared to tell everybody I’m a human being.

I’ve been honest with a lot of the problems I’ve had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.

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.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares.

My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‘topics’ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.

Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!