Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.