“My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender”

You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can’t be replaced by someone.

Honestly, I think I’ve stretched a talent which is so thin it’s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

When I’m worried and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep … counting my blessings.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me … We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

I’m proud to acknowledge my debt to the ‘Reverend Satchelmouth’ … He is the beginning and the end of music in America

Once or twice I’ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I’ve ever seen.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?