I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

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.

Education is the lifeblood of museums.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.