There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

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