I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

I love Toronto, It's the best city.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.