[But wouldn't it benefit Els, I asked, to prepare for the three U.S.-based majors by flying in two or three weeks early to adjust to the time difference and get used to the different playing conditions?] I disagree with that, ... If you're in a country four days before, that's plenty of time. I mean, Ernie has a G-5, he has a bed in his plane, he doesn't even have to pack his bags. It's a piece of bloody cake! |
[In his 1993 autobiography] To Be the Best, ... What I have learned about myself is that I am an animal when it comes to achievement and wanting success. There is never enough success for me. |
A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks. |
All in all, ... it doesn't matter whether you're a Masters champion teeing off here this week or you haven't played well recently; it's what you do this week. |
All in all, ... it doesn't matter whether you're a Masters champion teeing off this week, or you haven't played well recently; it's what you do this week. It's a brand new week. |
All they have to do is spend a little bit of money and change the mold (of the ball) and let the ball go back 30 yards. There are no such things as par-5s now really in professional golf, unless they move the tees back. |
Any time you have two Presidents Cups in a row and you go to the 18th green, I mean, golf is the winner, |
Arnie played 50 years and quit, so maybe I'll play 51 and hang it up. |
Arnold (Palmer) played 50 times. I'd like to play 51 times and then hang it up. |
As President Eisenhower once said to me, America is a global society. I think that everybody in the world should be thinking about it as a global society. The Presidents Cup is played in different parts of the world, not just America and Europe. It's going around the world gradually and fostering the game of golf, which we all love and want to see happen. |
As we all know, ... Golf is a puzzle without an answer. |
Being up one point is irrelevant. It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. There's such a long way to go. |
Each shot is important. |
Ernie is as tough as can be, and I think his performance in the last two majors left him highly motivated. I wouldn't be surprised if he won at St. Andrews. |
Everything just sort of jived, as they say, into place. |