Tiger Woods unveiled his TGR brand, doubled down on his belief he’ll pass Jack and said some ... curious things in this edition of Quotes of the Week.
Charlie Rose: Do you believe you’ll get 18 majors? / Tiger Woods: To be honest with you, no. / Rose: You don’t? / Woods: No. / Rose: You’ve accepted that? / Woods: I’ve accepted I’m going to get more.
“You know, if you look back, the only regret I have in life is not spending another year at Stanford, and I wish I would’ve had one more year.” - when asked by Rose about the burden of being Tiger Woods
“I made a bunch of mistakes. But in the end, Elin is my ex-wife. She’s one of my best friends. We’ve had two beautiful kids.” - when asked by Rose about his 2009 scandal and subsequent divorce
“I said, ‘Everybody makes mistakes, and the reason why mommy’s living in her house and daddy’s living in his house is because daddy made some mistakes, and it’s OK.’” - when asked by Rose how he’s explained his scandal and divorce to his children
“I applied my same intensity and my craft, my focus, to Call of Duty. Don’t laugh! I would spend eight hours a day, I took a 30-minute lunch break,” Woods said. “I thought I was getting good and then I went online. When 7-year-olds from around the world are beating you ... humbling.” - explaining his life post-surgery to Stephen Colbert
“My game is coming, it’s getting there. I’m not quite there where I feel like I can shoot 63s and (6)4s in tournaments,” Woods said. “I’m shooting low rounds at home, but I just don’t feel it’s quite ready to shoot those types of scores under tournament conditions.” - on his withdrawal from the Safeway Open and the current state of his game
“I’ll be there. I’m playing.” - reiterating his intention to play the Hero World Challenge
“I’m also taking the next step in what I like to call Chapter 2: my evolution as a competitor off the course.” - on the launch of his new TGR brand
“I had the same putt one hour earlier – same distance, same line. I played two inches of break, and the ball hardly broke,” Parnevik said. “When Tiger’s ball left the putter, I saw he’d played a foot of break, which was way too much. But as Tiger stared at the ball, it moved – a lot – and fell in. That was some serious Uri Geller, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Force-like s***. I don’t care what any scientist says, I’m convinced that Tiger’s mind, not the slope of the green, caused that ball to move.” - describing Woods’ birdie putt on the 72nd hole of 2008 U.S. Open in a recent interview
