Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

I love the challenge.

Never practice without a thought in mind.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

what you need and what you want aren't the same things,

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.