If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.