“I don’t just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.”

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.

My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.

My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

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.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.

When I told you I didn’t want you, it was the blackest kind of blasphemy.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren’t, huh?

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I’m acting black, because I’m not. I’m acting whatever you want to call it – urban. I don’t even have a name for it. I just call it ‘me.’

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he’s black. But I think he does have some good views.