Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

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.

If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"!

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.