It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

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.

I don’t know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better.

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.