It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.