As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this

...Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Only a Bush could answer a 'yes' or 'no' question two different ways and be wrong both times.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.