I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.