Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.

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.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

Today is older than tomorrow, that is the power of the present

No other version no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.