I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

There are no shortcuts to success.

On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Death is the mother of beauty.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.