When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.