When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.

God is helpless in our area of ignorance.

We are capable of learning any art.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.