There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

The game is meant to be fun.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

I can barely turn on my computer!

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.