To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen. - Jean Chrétien

Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.