I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

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My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

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The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

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Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

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I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

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You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.

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When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

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My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

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All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

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Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

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