But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.

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.

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

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 suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case.”“Oh god, is it wartime already?”“Look on the bright side: it’ll be dinner when we get back.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

What was fascinating to me, is that she [Hillary Clinton] still cannot answer eloquently, answers about her e-mails, she still can't explains to me why she's not a third term of [Barack] Obama.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

If I die today, it'd be a holiday

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.