My mother was right when she ...

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
 Tiger Woods

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference.
 Tiger Woods
I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.
 Tiger Woods
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
I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.
 Tiger Woods
My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.
 Tiger Woods