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

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.

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.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Our thoughts dictate how we feel

Twilight …Not just a metaphorThe metaphor of the ‘spirit’The confluence of life and deathThe celestial dance of existential and essential(Page 75)

In the grueling light that passed for day...

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.