He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.