Top 180 Tiger Woods Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.”

— Tiger Woods

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2. “No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part.”

— Tiger Woods

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3. “If you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care.”

— Tiger Woods

4. “All I know is I’ve tried my best.”

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5. “I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.”

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6. “We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.”

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7. “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.”

— Tiger Woods

8. “Winning takes care of everything.”

— Tiger Woods

9. “I always feel pressure. If you don’t feel nervous, that means you don’t care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I’ve always said the day I’m not nervous playing is the day I quit.”

— Tiger Woods

10. “My main focus is on my game.”

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11. “I believe in myself. There’s nothing wrong with believing in myself. That’s the whole idea, is that you can always become better.”

— Tiger Woods

12. “My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.”

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13. “In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.”

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14. “Under pressure, you can win with your mind.”

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15. “I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it’s ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.”

— Tiger Woods

16. “You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I’ve done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I’ve turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.”

— Tiger Woods

17. “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.”

— Tiger Woods

18. “I’m going to try to keep getting better.”

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19. “My dad used to say, ‘Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn’t influence your intelligence.’”

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20. “You’ve got to figure out what works best for you. That’s the hard part. I know I can’t play as stoic as Hogan, and I can’t talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.”

— Tiger Woods

21. “America’s a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.”

— Tiger Woods

22. “You can always become better.”

— Tiger Woods

23. “Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.”

— Tiger Woods

24. “You’re going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That’s not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.”

— Tiger Woods

25. “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.”

— Tiger Woods

26. “I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.”

— Tiger Woods

27. “It’s hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.”

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28. “The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that’s how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That’s the beauty of tomorrow.”

— Tiger Woods

29. “And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.”

— Tiger Woods

30. “Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”

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31. “Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills.”

— Tiger Woods

32. “Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can’t contribute to society.”

— Tiger Woods

33. “My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you’ll get the results.”

— Tiger Woods

34. “Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.”

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35. “You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.”

— Tiger Woods

36. “I’m getting back to my old roots.”

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37. “Sensationalism sells: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.”

— Tiger Woods

38. “If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?”

— Tiger Woods

39. “It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.”

— Tiger Woods

40. “Everyone wants to get a piece of me.”

— Tiger Woods

41. “One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people’s expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.”

— Tiger Woods

42. “I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated.”

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43. “My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”

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44. “I got hoes in different area codes.”

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45. “Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.”

— Tiger Woods

46. “I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.”

— Tiger Woods

47. “I’m trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don’t go your way, and that’s the way things go.”

— Tiger Woods

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

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49. “I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.”

— Tiger Woods

50. “I wake up every day and I can’t wait to go to work, and that’s a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.”

— Tiger Woods