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I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

It doesn't happen all the time, but when I'm playing well it's as if my eyes change. I can feel it. I just feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-a transformation happens, I'm a totally different human being. I don't hear anybody, I don't see anybody, nothing bothers me, nothing is going to interfere with what I'm about to do.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I tell jokes to pay my green fees.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the country. You can't beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

I think we have more good players today [2016] than we've ever had in the game of golf. And I think that's saying a lot because we had a lot of good players when I played. I think you had a bit of a lag in there for a while, that Tiger was just so much better than everybody else that he really didn't put anybody in with him.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.

I thought I might spend the rest of my time on golf. But thinking about it now, I'm happy playing whenever I have some downtime in my busy schedule, and even if I had all the time I wanted to play, my score probably wouldn't be very good.

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.