Quotes & Sayings About Golf Tiger Woods

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age. — John Daly

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well. — Rory McIlroy

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. — Tiger Woods

My instincts have never lies to me. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different. — Tiger Woods

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 — Tiger Woods

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. — Robert Redford

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. — Tiger Woods

We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players. — Tiger Woods

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

My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club. — Tiger Woods

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

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

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race. — Tiger Woods

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget. — Tiger Woods

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again. — Michael Sokolove

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do. — Tim Finchem

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf. — Tiger Woods

When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing. — Earl Woods

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. — Tiger Woods

I am the toughest golfer mentally. — Tiger Woods

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. — Tiger Woods

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot. — Tiger Woods

I hit a one-yard draw in there — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. — Shaquille O'Neal

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. — Tiger Woods

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power. — Sarah Churchwell

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person. — Tiger Woods

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal. — Larry Fitzgerald

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

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

I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go. — Tiger Woods

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

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

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. — Tiger Woods

It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose. — Tiger Woods

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

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon. — Tiger Woods

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams

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. — Tiger Woods

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

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. — Jean Chretien

I can't stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I've ever played golf with. — Stewart Rahr

My instincts have never lied to me. — Tiger Woods

If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser! — Tiger Woods

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too. — Yani Tseng

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself. — Tiger Woods

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

I don't think golf has ever been any pressure as far as having to succeed. — Tiger Woods

I love to play to win. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him. — Jason Kidd

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. — Tiger Woods

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

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

I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot. — Rafael Nadal

In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference. — Tiger Woods

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

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. — Tiger Woods

Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you'll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU's Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night. — Pat Forde

Though he never articulated it, I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him - that he was put on this earth to do something extraordinary with his special qualities, to "let the legend grow."
But those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus and stay calm under pressure, also included selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness, and cheapness.
When they were all at work in the competitive arena, they helped him win. And winning gave him permission to remain a flawed and in some ways immature person. — Hank Haney

I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game. — Richard Roundtree

It's cool now to play golf. — Tiger Woods

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here. — Tiger Woods

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. — Tiger Woods

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

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane. — Tiger Woods

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. — Richard Roeper

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