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

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.

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

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.

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.

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.