“Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.”

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.

It’s important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you’re remembered for. It’s how you’re measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it’s at.

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part.

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

The amount of meetings I’ve been in – people would be shocked. But that’s how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

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.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.

Football, that’s just athletics. But in the business world – doing everything – people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

With the NBA’s dress code, I had to revamp my wardrobe a little bit. They call it ‘business casual.’ You have to wear dress jeans or dress slacks, with a collared shirt or sweater. And you can’t wear athletic shoes.

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

There’s no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I’m the most athletic heavyweight in the division.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.