The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

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Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

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Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

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I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

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After you have the basics down it's all mental.

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Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

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My father was a man of few words.

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My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

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My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

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