It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.