I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Don’t forget to wonder and appreciate yourself.

Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.