Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.