That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

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?

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.