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Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

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.

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

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

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

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.

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

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

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

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.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

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.

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

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.

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

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

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

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

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

The game is meant to be fun.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

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

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

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

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

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

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

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

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.

Well, 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I can barely turn on my computer!

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

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

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

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

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

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.

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.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

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.

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.

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

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