Quotes by Tiger Woods

• It will always be the ball and me.
• And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
• You can always become better.
• The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
• My main focus is on my game.
• Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.
• In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
• If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
• If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
• I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
• I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.
• I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.
• Green and black go well together, don't they?
• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
• I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.
• 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.
• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
• For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
• Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
• 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.
• I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
• I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be.
• I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
• I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
• 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.