I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Out here, it's just you and the ball.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

We won't get fooled again!

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.