I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

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.

Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.