I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.

The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit .

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.