If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

Your private life, exposed, has a lingering effect on your mind and your game.

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

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 dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.