I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long put...
I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
It is not a dreamlike state but the somehow insulated state that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing but his mind is on the playing of hi...
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better...
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game ma...