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

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.

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.

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

Never give up on your dreams.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.