I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Nothing great was ever created without a great dream.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

We must learn to see the world anew.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas