If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

I feel like I've won the tournament.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

When you have a cast and crew of people who make it light hearted and crack jokes, and break treats, and understand that we are all in this together. That's a biggest plus that you can have.

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.