I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

There are no shortcuts to success.

On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?