Quotes of the Week: February 1, 2015

“I’m only here so I don’t get fined.” – channeling his inner Marshawn Lynch after the worst round of his professional career

“I didn’t win at the end of the day, but I still became No. 1 and that’s pretty awesome,” – after becoming the youngest No. 1 player in the world in the history of the game

“It’s not something that I would want anyone to go through … It’s a very sort of tedious and nasty process. … Yeah, look, I’m going to be heading to the States regardless with it off my mind and not having to deal with it or think about it. That will be it. To be honest, I’ve been concentrating on this event and practicing and that stuff is much more important to me than what’s going to happen next week” – on his impending court case against his former management company

“When you have the yips, you have issues ... This isn’t going away. … (he has) a serious issue and he knows it.” - on Tiger’s recent short game struggles

“On Wednesday, I was on the range and I saw this group of hot chicks and I was like, ‘Where did you get these hats? … They were like, ‘Oh, we’ll give you one of ours in exchange for balls and gloves.’ So I was like, sure. I thought it was really funny, then I whiffed the shot. I’ll do it again Sunday. I’ll wear orange, too.” – after playing the 16th hole wearing a giant, ridiculous orange hat

“I wasn’t planning to go to the Super Bowl, anyway. I will go back to San Diego and watch … I will maybe get even a little extra practice round in or two over at Torrey (Pines) and get ready for the upcoming event. See if I can get my short game sharp.” – on missing the Waste Management Phoenix Open cut

“I’m so pumped … I never thought I’d get to go to a Super Bowl in my life, let alone go and watch the Patriots play and win one. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I will do whatever it takes to get to that game, so if I have to get in a car and go 150 miles an hour, I’m going to do it. I can’t be this close to a Super Bowl with the Patriots playing and not go. So I will be there at some point.” - on getting to see his hometown New England Patriots play in a Super Bowl

“I was a little bit, you know, a little bit nervous going into 16 … I was actually really surprised. They were fantastic, you know. There was nothing mean at all. … I think some of the comments were actually pretty funny.” - on the reaction he got from fans in Phoenix

“I always joke that we have to send her to anger management classes, so she can learn to get angry … She has an amazing temperament for the game … She’s just 17, but she walks on this cloud. She doesn’t get overly excited. She doesn’t get overly down.” – on Lydia Ko, who faltered down the stretch at the Coates Golf Championship

“I’m hoping somebody can come find me … I’ll be out of here.” – on the possibility of his wife giving birth to their first child while we was out playing in the Waste Management Phoenix Open

“It was painful to watch … because you know his short game was once as good as anybody’s will ever be.” – on Tiger’s short game struggles over the first two rounds of the Waste Management Phoenix Open

“It’s golf. We all have days like this. Unfortunately, mine was in the public setting, but we all have days like this. (I have to) just keep fighting. Keep grinding, each and every shot. That is all I can do.” - after an 11-over 82 in the Waste Management Phoenix Open

“It wasn’t quite as dramatic as the papers would have you believe … I wasn’t swimming through shark-infested waters or killer jellyfish or anything like that, climbing over razor-sharp coral. I was laying on the sun bed nursing a hangover and I heard a gentleman sort of yelp for help. Athletically, obviously, I got up off the sun bed and pounced down the beach towards the sea and lifted him up over my head and carried him out of the water.” – on saving a drowning man while on vacation

“These chipping and pitching problems can be fixed in minutes. Not days, not hours, not weeks, but minutes … Somebody like Tiger Woods should be able to fix all his issues in literally minutes.” – on Tiger’s recent short game struggles