Tiger Woods Quotes

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

My strength was probably more the mental side of the game rather than the skill side. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point to it.

I focus on myself, that's how I beat Wladimir Klitschko.

I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.