Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

I don't have a sprinter's body.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Oh, baby. You have no idea what I’d do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.