Golf is more exacting than a a steeple-chase or the half-mile. — Arnold Haultain

"Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle."

"It is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological, and moral fight with yourself; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant."

"There are more "Donts" in golf than there are in any other avocation in life."

"Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony."

"Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop-order; you cannot jilt. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is just this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting."

"Most of the difficulties in golf are mental, not physical; are subjective, not objective; are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course."