Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

There is no such thing as a weakness, only blindspots. No such thing as failure, they are just detours and scenic routes to remember your success

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.