I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green.

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.