“I'm just really tired of it. I really am. I wish something would happen, but I think the damage has been done and to go backwards from here is almost impossible. I don't want to sound like a crybaby because I have had a great career. But I still think there should be courses that guys with my style of play can still play pretty well. With the longer hitters, now hitting fairways is irrelevant. That was a prerequisite for 100 years -- drive it in the fairway or you are in trouble. That doesn't count anymore. So that's sad.”
“He threw me under the bus in the media, saying, 'I tried to get hold of Nick and he's refused to do it', ... Why would he phone me the night before? He had four or five months to ask me. If he'd asked me earlier, I probably would have [accepted].”
“[That doesn't sound like a bad course of action for the Presidents Cup, either. Sooner or later it will have to leave the snug confines of Virginia and be contested on the home ground of one of the International team's players. But that will take time.] Tradition is not generated overnight, ... For only the second playing of this event, this was a very big step forward.”