My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Back then they used different chemicals in the tanning process. They prevent ocean bacteria from eating away at whatever is inside. A leather bag from the early 1900's is like a time capsule.

I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.

In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.