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The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

The woods are full of long drivers.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

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

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

This is one of the most special golf courses in the planet.

This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.

Those trees seem to grow every year.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

Today I have a great life. I have three kids and a beautiful wife. I play golf every day. I give to charities. I'm in a lucky position.

To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.