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

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.

Under pressure, you can win with your mind.

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

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

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

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated.

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

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.

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.

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

There’s a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don’t have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.

Golf is day-to-day. It’s shot to shot; it’s not four days at a time.

I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!

I’m swimming every day and I’m even trying to get the golf swing working again – but that might take a little bit longer.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.