After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.