Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.

If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.