I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

If you are feeling helpless help someone.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

There is no greater gift than time.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Governments need armies to protect them from their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

Every little job becomes a dream and you dont recall it anymore and maybe you might have a deja vu moment but its like something you dreamed earlier.

Each day is what you make it, so why not make it the best day ever.

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.