Tiger Woods Quotes

The Second greatest player to have ever played the game, will he take Nicklaus's crown? It is only a matter of time!

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

I don't care how many times you win, each one's special. I've won in all kinds of conditions

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

I won five golf tournaments and some people said I had a terrible year. If that's my terrible year, I'll take that for the rest of my career.

If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

Someone once asked me what my favorite club was. I said, All of them.

Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done, That's part of my attitude and belief that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.

I don't know, I've never played there. Sandy Lyle, when asked his opinion of talented newcomer Tiger Woods, in 1992.

He's a freak of nature, worlds apart from us in every way. Michael Campbell on Tiger Woods, long before Campbell held off a fierce attack from Woods to win the 2005 US Open.

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

Everyone wants to give me advice. I go to the grocery store and someone tells me what I did wrong with the four iron I hot on the 15th...

I don't know if you're ever finished trying to improve. As soon as you feel like you're finished, then I guess you are finished, because you've already put a limit on your ability and what you can attain. I don't think that's right.

I learned to trust the subconscious. My instincts have never lied to me

He has the ability to do things no one else can do and yet has a short game where, if he makes mistakes, he can correct it. That's what's so phenomenal about him. Jack Nicklaus on Tiger Woods.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his make-up. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going dust my records. It might as well be Tiger because he's such a great kid. Jack Nicklaus.

You do get the feeling sometimes that the rest of us are all out here playing for second place. Fred Couples on Tiger Woods.

Tiger is a great guy, probably the most professional sportsman in the world, but the intensity of his life is just ridiculous. That was what really brought home to me when he explained why he loves scuba-diving so much. He said it was because the fish didn't recognise him. Lee Westwood.

I wouldn't want Tiger's life, even if it does bring things like a $40 million Nike contract. It's not worth it. I can go out for a drink with my mates and no one bothers me, and that's how I like it. I would never want bodyguards, all that hassle. Lee Westwood.

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