Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.
I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.
I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.
Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.
I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.
NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.
I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.
If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.
All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'
