A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I like to love you as the moon loves the night. I only like to exist and feel my presence when you are with me.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.