I fully expect Tiger to return to come back to play well and be a good competitive force in the game, but it does make me sad to see Tiger or any of our athletes struggle with health. I think Tiger has struggled a lot with his health of late, and nobody likes that.

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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

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Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

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Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

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Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

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The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

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It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

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Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

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Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

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Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

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If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

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I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

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I never missed a putt in my mind.

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Focus on remedies, not faults.

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