Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

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.

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

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth, ” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

You look like a hot tamale.”“That’s not really a compliment.

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

If you're hanging out with two negative people, do they equal one positive person?

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.