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

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.