Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.
My main focus is on my game.
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.
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.
I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.
As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.
The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
It's cool now to play golf.
My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
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.
My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.
Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.
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.
I look at a streak as I don't lose - literally.
I started changing my swing in late 1999.
