Tiger Woods Quotes (193 Quotes)

I know Colin is here but I don't know how healthy he is after hurting his hand. He says he's OK but I've said I was healthy before too. The last thing you want to do is come into a tournament like this one where the rough is so high with a hand injury. Hopefully, it will hold up and he won't have any problems.

Dad is doing better. He's my best friend. Any time you can spend as much time with your parents that you truly love, especially when he wasn't feeling all that well, it meant the world to me.

The only thing you can do is take a learning experience from it, positives and negatives, and apply them to the future. What did you do right, what did you do wrong, and I did a lot of things right this week,

He drove it so good it was a joke. He played solid. He should take a lot of positives from it. John should take a lot out of this week. He played well.

Well, I've been dealing with it for years so nothing's changed. It is what it is and you just deal with it. Everyone who has had a family member (near death), you're going to deal with it sometime. Unfortunately it's our time right now.

Nick hits the ball very consistently and he's a wonderful putter, whilst his short game is very solid,

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.

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.

I'm very close to putting it all together. I just need to make a few more putts, get the ball a little closer to the hole and it will be all good.

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.

Rocco is very loose. No matter whether he's shooting 80 or 60, he's still the same.

That putt -- I've had that putt it seems like for three, four years, and I miss it low every year and always power it three, four feet past the hole, ... I made sure I threw the ball out there a little bit more

On this course, the way it's playing, it's not easy. It's hard to take it deep on the South Course.

Well, dad wasn't feeling well and it's just the same stuff, just tried to go out there and hopefully make his spirits a little better. Just trying to make him understand that I love him dearly and want him to hang in there and keep fighting, which he always does. He's a very stubborn man, which is good.

I had 116 yards and it was slightly downwind. I hit a good shot, maybe just a touch too flat. I thought it would have landed shorter than it did, but it landed pin-high.

I'm in contention, so it's a good spot, I guess. I'm only five back. And with the forecast, it's unpredictable. Who knows We may not play if there's thunderstorms.

Just one of those weird days where I just didn't have it. I didn't feel very good over the ball, putts, chips, full shots, you name it.

Welcome to golf, ... I wish we could say we could putt well every day, but it doesn't happen. The only thing you can do is control your speed every day. This week, my speed has been a little bit erratic.

Without getting too technical, what I try to do is swing on the angle of the club shaft at address, ... For me, that's a consistent swing plane that matches my arms and body. It takes timing out of the equation.

I've done this before. I have won three majors in one year, ... And I guess from some of the guys I have talked to in the media this week, the novelty factor is not there any more. You have already done it.

no matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

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.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Green and black go well together, don't they?

Obviously, we both didn't play very well, ... I can't speak for him, but as I said, I had a two-way miss and couldn't find a fairway that's 300 yards wide. If you're hitting it both ways, it's tough to play.

I didn't hit the ball very close and when I did, I did make a couple of putts, but other than that, I was 30, 40 feet just about every hole.

Pretty high. It's fun to see that all of the hard work that Hank and I have been putting into it is starting to pay off.

You don't know. I mean, guys have come back from 10 back before in majors and have won. I don't know. It all depends on what Phil (Mickelson), and as I said Jerry (Kelly) and the rest of the guys before him, if they shoot 64 or 65 or 66. Then, you know it's pretty far out of reach unless I shoot a low one and they come back tomorrow.

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.

Put it this way. If I hit a couple of bad shots, I feel like it's not the end of the world. I can fit it and I can move on and I can still post a really good number. Before, it would be damage control and somehow try and wheel around it and shoot somewhere around par or even under par. But that's not the case.

When I had the record and the money title, it's very misleading,

I'll stay around and watch. You don't know what's going to happen out there. It's getting harder and faster.

I hung in there well. I didn't play particularly well. I hit a lot of poor drives, and when I drove the ball well I continued to drive it in the first cut (of rough). It was kind of frustrating because nothing really seemed to get the momentum going. When I did get the momentum going, like on Sunday, I made a mistake.

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

The guys that went off early probably played in wind maybe half the round, maybe more, maybe less, depends on where they were on their time. That's just the way it is. (Today) we're all out there about the same time, and you've got to go out there and play.

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.

Quite frankly, I probably shouldn't have been in the playoff. I wasn't putting very well at all. I just hung in there and hung in there. ... For me to have a chance to win the title, I was lucky.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

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.

Chris has been there in a bunch of tournaments. And, unfortunately, guys have come up with the goods at the wrong time for him. That's not saying Chris has played poorly. It's just that he's been there enough times when guys have played better. That's just the way it goes.

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.

We are all curious to see how it's going to hold up, playing this fast. A handful of guys are under par and with the wind supposed to blow, it's going to be interesting.

The South Course, you'd better have the ball-striking up there. It's just that some of these pins now, they are so close to the edges, you have to be pretty precise. If you do miss it, you're going to pay the price, and I think good ball strikers are going to do well here.

I heard, 'Nice putts' a couple of times.

I'm in good shape. A good shot can end up in a bad spot and you just have to accept the consequences and move on. It was very difficult.

Two seconds in two weeks, they are good weeks, ... Second doesn't feel as good as first, that's for sure.

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

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 will always be the ball and me.