In college, Tiger got a taste of links golf
He loves the style played at the British Open at Carnoustie, Scotland
I think that I want to be remembered as someone who was able to … forget about baseball but be able to help mankind. So I want to be remembered as not someone who hit 700 home runs or someone who had a .300 batting average, but someone who did a little bit more than just — did some other things to help mankind.”
Legendary slugger Hank Aaron, to the Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent.
You see a player flip a bat today, and suddenly it’s headlines. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been flipping bats a long time. ... We’ve danced on the bump a long time. ... Our game is difficult. It’s challenging. A game you can fail seven of 10 times. ... Being able to celebrate with what you’re wearing, what you’re doing — yeah, it’s gotta be there moving forward. We can’t lose that.”
Tony Clark, head of the baseball players union, on Tuesday in Washington before the All-Star Game.
For right now, I don’t think he can. We’ll see what happens this year. I don’t think it helps that he doesn’t have a lot of talent at Tennessee.”
Former Georgia QB Aaron Murray, a CBS Sports Network analyst, saying new Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt, an ex-Georgia defensive coordinator, is not a good fit as a head coach.
Tiger Woods has more experience winning in these conditions than any other player.”
Instructor Hank Haney, who parted ways with Woods in 2010, picking him to win the British Open.
The pressure is really a privilege. … Those are things we embrace at the University of Georgia. We can’t run from those things.”
Georgia coach Kirby Smart at the SEC media days when asked about the pressure to repeat last season’s success, which included the program’s first conference title since 2005 and a spot in the national title game, where it lost in overtime to Alabama.
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