There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

So long as you have life, you can pursue your dream.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog