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.
TONY FINAUBut I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.
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I definitely feel it’s important, whether I’ve taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.
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Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.
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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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 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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I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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.
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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.
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There are a lot of variables to playing mini-tour golf because of the finances. If you don’t play well, you’re often losing a lot of your own money.
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The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal.
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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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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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