You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
Playing the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course is always a great week.
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.
I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.
Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.
Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.
Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.
Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.
When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.
That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.
I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.
From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.
I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.
Of course it's a big moment for me in my career if I could win on the PGA Tour.
My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.
My biggest dream is to win four Majors in a year.
Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.
