Tiger Woods Quotes
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
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I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.
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It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.
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As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
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I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.
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It will always be the ball and me.
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My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
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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.
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I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.
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My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.
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The majority of my blood is Asian.
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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.
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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
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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
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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.
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I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.
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When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.
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Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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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.
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I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.
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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.
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The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
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The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
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You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.