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

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.

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.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are

Only the dead have no troubles.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.