“That’s the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.”

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it’s a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

It’s just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

Well, the memories were obviously – every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it’s a great game.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

I know thousands of German’s who are totally different from me, so we’re not alike, we’re not the same.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

Golf’s really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. … I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.

I don’t care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.