“Well, the memories were obviously – every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.”

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it’s a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

It’s just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

That’s the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it’s a great game.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky.

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike.

As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.