An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.