My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

You can't win them all but you can try.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.