I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

When you have more than you need, make your table longer, not your fence higher.

We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

Draft beer, not people.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.