So I definitely take time to realize where I’m at in my life. And I know that I’m blessed.
TONY FINAUI know a lot of kids following in my footsteps, not only from my heritage, but there’s younger generations trying to follow in my footsteps.
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I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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I think it’s a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn’t matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them.
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It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
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We didn’t have cable TV. We just couldn’t afford it. But you don’t need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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I know a lot of kids following in my footsteps, not only from my heritage, but there’s younger generations trying to follow in my footsteps.
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I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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I had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.
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I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We’re very respectful people, and very humble people… and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.
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I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
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