These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.

The materials shape your idea.

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.