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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Just remember, somewhere there's some guy who's tired of putting up with her crap

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

Grizzly Adams did have a beard

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.