You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
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.
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course. . . the space between your ears.
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it sort of has the same relationship to Islam that Christianity has to Judaism, and it's a kind of a universalist creed and missionaries aren't paid. You're essentially expected to go out and find a job and do your own thing, and in your spare time spread the faith, and so that was the driving force of us going overseas.
I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.
Death comes to us all. Press me again and you shall find yours.
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.