“I didn’t have really much of a social life in high school, and I’m not really a partyer, so college wasn’t super appealing to me at the time.”

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,

It’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.

It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.

Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.

For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.

There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.

Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.

I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.

I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.

When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.

One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That’s one thing that I had to keep telling myself.

I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.

And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I’m not the only person that thinks that.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.