Tiger woods quotes

My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.

I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.

Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

My mind is my biggest asset.

Under pressure, you can win with your mind.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

It will always be the ball and me.

People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.

It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Variety is not everything! Viagra is!

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I've been a gamer all my life.

I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

I got hoes in different area codes

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.

We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.

A pre-putt routine helps you stay nice and relaxed so you can make the best stroke possible.

You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

Did you guys take enough freakin' pictures already?

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

A lot has transpired in my life.

I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.

You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.

It's just a matter of, for me, getting my mind where it needs to be. Certainly I've made a lot of adjustments in my life, and I've gone through a lot. A lot.

No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

It's something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It's not about what other people think and what other people say. It's about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor.

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

You can always become better.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.

Green and black go well together, dont they?

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

All I know is I've tried my best.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife