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You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
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It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.
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There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.
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I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.
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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.
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In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
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I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.
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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.
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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.
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Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.
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All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.
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I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
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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.
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There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.
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I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.
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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.
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The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.
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Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.
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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.
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I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan, that's about it. I think that I've been lucky enough to represent some great companies, and I think maybe that's what it is.
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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.