The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.