Quotes Of the Week: January 26, 2014

When things off the golf course are on good terms it is a little easier to concentrate when you don’t have too many things in your head. I am very fortunate with Kathy (girlfriend Katharina Boehm) and with my family and all those around me, so it’s great to be playing well and to be in this winning situation with the goal now to keep improving. - after winning the Qatar Masters (Getty Images)

I think I’m just getting old. - joking about his back pain, which eventually caused him to withdraw on Saturday morning from the Farmers Insurance Open (Getty Images)

I hate running, so I was trying to do something different. - on why he was rollerblading last March, when he fell and fractured his ankle, and injury that cost him the rest of the 2013 season (Getty Images)

I wasn’t intimidated by any means. - on being paired for the first time in competition with Tiger Woods. Over 36 holes Spieth beat Woods by nine strokes, 71-63--134 to 72-71--143. (Getty Images)

The kid has got talent. - on Jordan Spieth, who accepted the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year award at the same time that Woods accepted the Player of the Year award (Getty Images)

I am in such a great place. Derek just makes me want to be better, makes me want to be a better person. - on fiance Derek Heath (Getty Images)

I don’t like making birdies at the first hole. Well, I don’t mind, but it doesn’t (usually) end up being the nicest days. (Getty Images)

I think I just had a good rest this offseason.When I came back in January and I picked up my golf clubs, I was really excited to play. I was so ready to get back into a rhythm. - after a second-round 65 (Getty Images)

I’ll never let it go because everybody else doesn’t have anything on him as far as golf. He’s beat everybody for so many years, I’ve got to hold onto that. It hurts him. I tell you, it hurts him. - on beating Tiger Woods by eight shots in the 1993 Junior Worlds at Torrey Pines (Getty Images)

Over the last month, hearing the word change, it could pretty much be my middle name. I know what happened before, with other players, but you never know what’s going to happen . . . I wanted a challenge. - on going into her rookie season as an LPGA member with a new caddie, new clubs and new swing coach (Getty Images)

Our great game has been in a state of decline and a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge that. - the TaylorMade Adidas Golf CEO, announcing a new grow-the-game initiative, Hack Golf (Getty Images)

I feel like it’s just a matter of time. I actually believe I’ll win a couple. - on his belief that he will not only break through and win his first U.S. Open, but win more as well (Getty Images)

Every year is a big year. - responding to a suggestion that this year, because its majors will be played at sites where he has had success, will be an especially big one for him (Getty Images)

No, I’m done. - responding to an interview request from CBS after he missed the third-round cut by shooting a 79 (Getty Images)