I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.