“Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.”

I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You’ve got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you’re in the boondocks it won’t do you any good.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?

People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don’t make a big deal out of an easy shot.

For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Like I’m a puzzle to be worked out and he’s got all damn day.

[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.

I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight. It’s not a gay wedding, it’s just a wedding. It’s not a gay marriage, it’s just a marriage.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.