• "I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives."
  • "Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world."
  • "Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."
  • "I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media."
  • "I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."
  • "Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
  • "That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work."
  • "My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
  • "The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."
  • "Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me."