Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

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.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you've become.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.