Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.
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.
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.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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 mankind has ever invented.
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.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
I can’t be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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 use of my time.