Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

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.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Experiment your sacred self!

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.