Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

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.

Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.