I am the servant of my score.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

When you go up in the ranking, for sure you have more friends.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.