If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

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.

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

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

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.

i am happy that to have or not to have a "leffe" is not the need of the hour in my mid thirthies. A liittle bit of more lighthearted luff left.

Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition.

Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no, ” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.

Patriotism is a villain's last refuge.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

My choices were never wrong.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.