The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.