Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

The important thing is to be drunk.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!