I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

My wife said to me 'I hope you win... but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.