Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

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.

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.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

You say wicked like it's a bad thing.

If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.

You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.

When the fox preaches look to your geese.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.