Athlete

I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.

I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

Guys who chum it up are just OK. Guys who are great players are loners.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.

I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.