“Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.”

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I give opinions, not advice.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.

This is my interpretation! So, I encourage everybody to really get comfortable with yourself. Stay true to your authentic self, and stop being worried about people.

Everybody thinks I’m at death’s door, but I’m not. There’s nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.

I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can’t be a passing fad like everybody says.

I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.