Tiger Woods Quotes

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life.

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.