After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.