21 Famous Inspirational and Motivational Quotes - "Tiger Woods"

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, born December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, United States, is an American golfer who had one of the best amateur careers in the game's history and went on to dominate the professional circuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1997, Woods became the first golfer of African or Asian ancestry to win the Masters Tournament, one of golf's most famous competitions. Woods became the first golfer to win the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open (Open Championship), and the PGA Championship in successive years with his triumph at the 2001 Masters.

Woods was born to a Thai mother and an African American father. He was a naturally brilliant golfer who began golfing at an early age and quickly established himself as a prodigy, taking swings on a television show at the age of two and shooting a 48 over nine holes at the age of three. 

He became the youngest champion of the US Junior Amateur Championship when he won it at the age of 15 in 1991, and he again won it in 1992 and 1993. He won the first of his three straight U.S. Amateur Championships in 1994, returning from a six-hole deficit. In 1994, he enrolled at Stanford University and won the college championship in 1996. 

Woods left college and went professional on August 29, 1996, after winning his third U.S. Amateur championship. In 1996, he won two titles and was awarded the PGA Tour's Rookie of the Year after competing in eight PGA tournaments. 

Woods could create such club speed that he could smash drives of over 300 yards regularly His decisive long game, putting and chipping prowess, and reputation for mental fortitude made him a fearsome opponent and a fan favorite. In one of the most dominant performances in professional golf history, Woods scored a tournament-record 270 over 72 holes in the 1997 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, finishing 12 shots clear of the competition. 

Woods said in January 2021 that he had had his sixth back surgery and would not be able to compete again until April at the earliest. In February, he was in a single-car accident, and his right leg had to be medically repaired. Woods gave a news conference nine months after the accident, raising questions about whether he will return to the professional tour. He did, however, return to the PGA Tour in April 2022, participating in the Masters. Woods struggled due to his past ailments despite cutting, and he ended up 13 strokes over par. 

Let's learn about Tiger Woods's views to see the life and get inspired by them:

1. I smile at obstacles.

2. Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

3. My will can move mountains.

4. I love to compete. That’s the essence of who I am.

5. People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented, I was never the biggest, I was never the fastest, I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.

6. Never listen to other people’s expectations. You should live your life and live up to your own expectation.

7. No matter how good you get you can always get better and that’s the exciting part.

8. The greatest thing about tomorrow is I will be better than I am today.

9. Days when you just don’t have it, you don’t pack it in, you give it everything you’ve. You grind it out.

10. Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility, and sportsmanship.

11. I’m aware if I’m playing at my best I’m tough to beat, and I enjoy that.

12. I am the toughest golfer mentally.

13. The only thing you can do is take a learning experience from it, positives and negatives, and apply them to the future. What did you do right, what did you do wrong, and I did a lot of things right this week.

14. You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on.

15. The only reason I enter an event is to win.

16. I’ve exceeded a few of my goals, but I’m behind on a couple of others.

17. If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

18. 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.

19. I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.

20. Golf is me.

21. I’m addicted. I’m addicted to golf.