I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

You could play well and still lose.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

I don't have a problem with a world full of vampires and zombies but with one where the law forbids me from shooting them.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

To be truly great and greatly true Is to align your thoughts, words and actions in all you do

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.