On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

There are no shortcuts to success.

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

Take them off!” I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. “Take everything off!” “I’m trying!” “Try harder!

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.