People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

People define you based on what you value...

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

The world is full of horrible things.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.