You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

I can barely turn on my computer!

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.