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

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

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 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.

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

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

I try and stay out of the sun for the most part. I wear a hat. I play golf. And I wear a hat. But I've had no problem - no major problem - but certainly no problem with skin.

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.

It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

It's certainly something we haven't seen before in terms of a fully commercial global brand - really a family of brands - not just Trump but also Ivanka, who has a sub-brand. We've never seen this before. We've had presidents in financial conflicts of interest before, but this phenomenon where a sitting president image avatar is out there selling golf courses and condominiums, even as he is in office and having the value of his personal brand inflated dramatically by fact of his being president, is new territory.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.