Jack Nicklaus

"He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play."

Gary McCord

"He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it."

Gary McCord

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."

Warren Spahn

"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."

Tiger Woods

"Horse racing is animated roulette."

Roger Kahn

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

Earl Warren

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying."

Michael Jordan

"I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast."

Buddy Marucci

"I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again."

Ben Hogan

"I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win."

Tiger Woods

"I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes."

Al McGuire

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."

Rogers Hornsby

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."

Tug McGraw

"I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul."

Phil Jackson

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers

"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today."

Gerald R. Ford

"I have lost this battle but I will win the war."

Anna Kournikova

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

Gerald R. Ford

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."

Michael Jordan

"I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games."

Ben Hogan

"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."

Joe E. Lewis

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."

Walt Whitman

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

Mike Tyson