This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

He who retreats lives longer.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.