There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
The mind messes up more shots than the body.
Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.
Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.
There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.
Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"
I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.
I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.