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Tiger Woods Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal
Tagged: Competition, Confidence, Arrogance
“I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods and Buddhism
Tagged: Buddhism, Enlightenment, humans, Flaws
“I just love to compete. I don't care if it's golf or Nintendo or in the classroom. I mean, competing against the other students or competing against myself. I know what I'm capable of.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, the Man. Amen.
Tagged: Competition, Nintendo, Confidence
“I don't see myself as the 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.”
— Tiger Woods
Tagged: Great Black Hope, Golfer, Asian, Race
“Buddhism teaches that a creation of things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods and Buddhism
Tagged: Buddhism, Security, Restraint
“What I can't figure out, is why so many good-looking women hang around baseball and basketball. Is it because, you know, people always say that, like, black guys have big dicks?”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, the Man. Amen.
Tagged: stereotypes, Big Dicks, Sports Groupies
“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.”
— Tiger Woods
Tagged: Betrayal, hurt, Apologies
“My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. It's now up to me to make amends. And that starts by never repeating the mistakes I've made.”
— Tiger Woods
Tagged: Failure, Amends, Mistakes
“My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.”
— Tiger Woods
Tagged: Health, diet
“I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal
Tagged: Competition
“I can’t remember the last time I watched golf. I can’t stand it.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods on His Pain and Comeback
Tagged: Golf, Self-hatred
“The best part about phone interviews is getting to wear shorts.”
— Tiger Woods
Tagged: interviews, casual
“My kids are more important to me than anything else in the world.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods on His Pain and Comeback
Tagged: kids, Fatherhood
“The words got lost somewhere between the brain and the mouth, and it was very difficult but I fought through it. I went to a school to try and get over that, and I just would work my tail off. And I would talk to my dog. He would sit there and listen, and he'd fall asleep. And that's fine, just lay there. I finally learned how to do that without stuttering all over myself.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal
Tagged: Stuttering
“I think every great champion who has ever lived would say, yeah, they’re selfish in certain aspects. That’s how you got there. You had to put in extra time in the weight room, extra time running and running, extra time recovering, extra time running their plays or hitting shots or doing the things that other people didn’t do. Why do you do it? Yeah, you wanted to become better. But there’s a cost.”
— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods on His Pain and Comeback
Tagged: champions, Running, Recovering, Selfish
“I was living a life of a lie. I really was. And I was doing a lot of things, like I said, 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. But then again, when you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it. The strength that I feel now, I’ve never felt that type of strength.”
— Tiger Woods, Transcript of Tiger Woods' interview with ESPN
Tagged: Living a Lie, ugly, Remorse, hurt, Denial, strength
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