Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

My blood boils when I see people going back to the same person who hurt them like a million times.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Dog is God spelled backward.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.