I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.

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?

Overcoming all obstacles improves us, develops our natural ability and makes us stronger

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Methinks love maketh men like Angels.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements.

To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.