Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.

and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Love what you have. And then go for what you want.