“If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I’ve loved this course from the first time I saw it. It’s possibly the best in the world.” And “A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.” And “Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.” And “Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.” And “Don’t be too proud to take lessons. I’m not.” And “Focus on remedies, not faults.” And “How people keep correcting us ..read more

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.” And “Each shot is important.” And “Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play.” And “If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta National. I just don’t want an early tee time.” And “A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.” And “We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.” And “You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.” And Gary Player’s Ten Commandments 1. Change is the price o ..read more

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” And “Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.” And “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” And “I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” And “I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.” And “I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” And “It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.” And “Putt ..read more

Robert Tyre Jones, Jr retired from golf in 1930, at the age of 28, still an amateur, having just won the Grand Slam. Grantland Rice wrote of him: “One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. A consummate gentleman, he also possessed wit, a temper and a keen intellect, and all of these are evident in his many insights into golf and life.” And “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.”   ..read more

“A hungry dog hunts best.” And “I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.” And “I’m not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.” And “I’m not scared of very much. I’ve been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.” And “If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” And “My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time.” And “Pressure is playing for ten ..read more

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” And “There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.” And “Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.” And “Only the gentle are ever really strong.” And “Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.” And “When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qual ..read more

“About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.” And “Guys ask me, don’t I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?” And “I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.” And “Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” And “The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it ..read more

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” And “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” And “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” And “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” And “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” And “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish ..read more

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” And “My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.” High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest And “Well, we knocked the bastard off!” Hillary’s comment to George Lowe, after his successful ascent of Mt Everest And “I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comrade ..read more

“A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.” And “Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” And “Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.” And “Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.” And “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.” And “The essence of football is blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.” And “The secret is to work less as ind ..read more