I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.