Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Be a witch they cannot burn.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.