Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.

The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.