I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.