There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

Golf was never a religion to me.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.

I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.

You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.

Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'