A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity, the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

I'm a strong fellow.

I have a sexy side to me, but it's more of a fun sexy.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't._

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Never settle for the path of least resistance.