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I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.

I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.

I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.