Tiger Woods

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.

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

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

I don’t think about things that much. I watch, I absorb and then I follow instinct.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?

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

I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. 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.

It's been a lot of fun to see some fruits of my hard labour.

My main focus is on my game.

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.

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

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.

That's why I've busted my butt on the range for hours on end and made changes to get to this point where I'm able to compete at the highest level in major championships. That's where you want to be.

The only thing that means a lot to me is winning.

The only thing you can do is take a learning experience from it, positives and negatives, and apply them to the future.

You've got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding, ... You never know what can happen. And it turned out well.

You know, all the nay-sayers said that I was doing the wrong things. They can understand why now I made those changes.