There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.
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.
Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.
America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.
One of the things my dad kept instilling in me was the joy of the game. He made it fun for me. A lot of the time I see kids that don't enjoy being out there and that's a shame; you're supposed to enjoy the game.
If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
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.
I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
A lot has transpired in my life.
The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.
I was living a life of a lie. I really was.
I've been a gamer all my life.
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.
It's just a matter of, for me, getting my mind where it needs to be. Certainly I've made a lot of adjustments in my life, and I've gone through a lot. A lot.
You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.
Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
