Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

Goals are only important if they win games

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.