Tiger Woods Golf Quotations

He's a guy that understands how to play the golf course. Experience helps a lot on this golf course -- where to miss it, how to play it, the angles you need to have.

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.

My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.

My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

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

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

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

You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

It's cool now to play golf.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.

I hit a one-yard draw in there

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players.

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.

A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

I love to play to win.

I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

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

Unfortunately I had a couple MCs (missed cuts) this year, which is not normal. To be in contention at all the majors, win two World Golf Championship events and be in contention at other events, that's awfully exciting.

I thought at the beginning of the day, there might be two scores in the 60s today. The golf course is playing really difficult. It's fast now. As always, if there's no rain here, the golf course is completely different from Wednesday to Thursday. It somehow just dries out miraculously overnight.

It's not physical, where you go up there and put a shoulder in somebody and take him out. It's about the ability to bear down and pull out quality golf shots on your own, and put an inordinate amount of pressure on you're opponent. That's the only thing you can do in our sport.

That's what is coming and I've always said this. Guys are going to get bigger, stronger, be more athletic. ... Even if you don't do anything with the golf ball or the clubs and keep everything where it's at, guys are still going to get longer. Guys are going to get bigger, stronger and more athletic over the next generations.

We hit four irons off most of the tees but it was just the nature of the golf course. You've just got to put the ball in play and move on.

The thing is, you see all the money that's available out there. I see where am I going to play. I have no place to play yet. I'm not exempt. I have no security. So if I don't turn pro and I don't make it out here, where am I going to go? Nike? Hooters? Asia? Anywhere but here, I guess.

I've asked Rick Nichols at Nike to see what I can do to bridge the gap, to maybe put a 5-wood or 7-wood in the bag. But I have a problem with having to be able to flight the golf ball with those clubs.

This is as good as it gets - to win the Open Championship at the Home of Golf is a dream come true.

You look down that list, you can't really say that guy was a chop ball-striker. You have to hit every single golf shot. Plus, this golf course, you have to manage your game so well. The majority of the winners who have come through here are major championship winners.

It's certainly not the golf course when I was pretty young playing it. It's unbelievable how much they've changed the golf course. It used to be basically a clover field out here. The greens are unbelievable, perfectly smooth. It's just hard to believe what they've done here.

It's not easy here, it's a tough track. And I haven't always played my best golf at the right time. This track, you got to hit the ball well.

I've played well here. But this golf course didn't really handle the weather too well, and this time of year, you get rain. We've been lucky to finish this tournament on time.

They lost the golf course. It's terrible they lost control of the golf course at our national championship. This is not the way it's supposed to be played. It's a great course, absolutely fantastic. It was great the first two days but today it just got away from them.

It doesn't concern me. You're going to have advances in technology. Guys are bigger, stronger, faster, with added technology. Hence, you're going to hit it farther. Even average golfers have picked up a lot of distance.

More than the length, it's the fact that every ball is backing up. Every ball picked up mud. That's the hardest thing in the world. You can have length, and you can have longer shots to the green, but if you don't have a clean ball, it makes for a very difficult golf shot.

I hope they learn some things that will help their golf game grow.

I played solid today, ... I hit good, quality golf shots all day and I hit a couple loose ones, but more than anything, I was happy with the way I putted today.

I just haven't played my best golf at the right time. I've played some good golf, but not my best stuff. And this track, you've got to hit the ball well. You just can't get away with hitting it poorly around here and expect to win.