"Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports." — Charlie Sifford

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.