I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Science is the only savior.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

A winner never stops trying.