A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.