When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

All creativity is a work in progress.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.