"I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state."

“Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.”

“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.”

“Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.”

“The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.”

“If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport”

“Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.”

“If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.”

Source : Nicolas Caussin, Hawkins (1678). “The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and”, p.668