Success in this game depends less on strength of body than strength of mind and character.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 50 years, and I still haven't the slightest idea of how to play.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.