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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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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People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

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When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

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I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

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All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

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

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I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

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

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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

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