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[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.
I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.
When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.
You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.
I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.
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.
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.
My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
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.
Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.
Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.
I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.
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.
We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.
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.
My boys don't play as much as they used to, but when we do go out and play, it gets competitive, that's for sure - there's no question about it.
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.
Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.
I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.
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.
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.
I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.
Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.
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 Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.
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.
I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what happens with guys.
We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.