If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.