As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you." She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.

I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.