TIGER WOODS' Winning Mindset! How He Mastered Motivation

I've always been a big believer of professional excellence, and that's what I try and achieve.

And then when I came into golf, I done differently because no one had ever trained, no one ever lifted weights.

When you have to make a putt, you make a putt. You have to hit this shot, you hit the shot. My mind's won me a lot of tournaments, but physically I always felt that I wasn't as good as I could be.

He's an American professional golfer who's among the most successful golfers of all time. He's been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years. He's been the the world number 1 golfer for the most consecutive weeks and the most total weeks of any golfer in history. He's Tiger Woods, and here's my take on his top 10 rules for success. Number 2 is my personal favorite, and I'm curious to find out which one you guys like the best. And also, as you watch the clips, if there's something that Tiger says that really resonates with you, make sure to add it to the comments with quotes so we can see what really resonated with you.

That there is such a thing as perfection, and because we are human, we're all technically imperfect, so how can we ever achieve perfection? But what I can— I will tell you this, that I've always been a big believer of professional excellence, and that's what I try and achieve. I know I can never get to a point where I hit perfect shots every time, and I just want to become the best I can be, and that to me is professional excellence.

I don't know what he's gonna do here, but this is—

I'm gonna watch this.

How about a 4? How about a 4? Can you tell me? I just— I'll tell you, I've seen it all today. This is unbelievable.

What does an athlete like you, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Diego Maradona— what do you have that at the end of the day you become bigger than the sport itself? I don't think we're necessarily bigger than the sport. I just think that we've had so much success in the sport. And I think it's in the way we've done it. Whether it's through just pure dominance or maybe someone may have a more flashy personality as well as dominating. Some people are, they may do it differently than anyone's ever seen it done before in the past. And I think that's where I think people kind of gravitate towards. What Messi and Ronaldo are doing now in soccer is just phenomenal but two different ways. 2 different ways of doing it, right? And then you have Jordan coming into the league. He did it completely different than anybody else. And then when I came into golf, I done differently because no one had ever trained. No one ever lifted weights. No one ever ran miles. No one ever did wind sprints. No one ever did any of those things in golf. So I did it differently, and I had success doing it differently. And I think that's what people sometimes see, and have gravitated towards.

This week was the pro debut of 20-year-old Tiger Woods.

I guess hello world, huh?

202-yard par 3 with a 6-iron. Bring it in there! The 9th hole-in-one Life. Yeah, that's yours. Tiger, do you ever get tired of hearing this? Do you ever get tired of people watching you, asking you questions? You're 18 years old. There's going to be a lot of people expecting a lot of big things out of you.

Well, that's fine. They can expect all they want, but, uh, I've always had this one bonus to my, to my personality. My expectations are so high, no matter what anybody else expects, it's going to be lesser than what I expect of myself. Yeah, so that's a big bonus. And plus, I really don't give a darn what they think.

The northwood line, he's got the balls lying at the bottom of the downslope. Can he find the magic to chip it in? Oh, beautiful! He had to take the chance and he's made it! The things he does at certain moments is quite incredible. That was the most difficult golf shot. He played made it to perfection.

You should learn something from each and every single round you play in. Every single round you should learn something, whether it's one thing, it might be 20 things. Learn something from each and every round, and I've done that. Every round that I've played, I've come back home, I've critiqued my round, I've looked at it from the mental and mechanical side, what went wrong, what went right, and apply it to the next day.

Tiger now with a 6-iron. One good straight shot, middle of the green, 2 putts should make him the champ. Well, that's fairly convincing, would you say? That is some kind of shot there.

One of the things my dad always taught me is that if you put a lot of effort into it, you're gonna get results. But if you don't put any effort into it, you're not gonna get any results out of it, but more importantly, you don't deserve any results. So you get out what you put into it. And one of the things that my dad always, always did when I was growing up, he always kept it competitive and fun. And I love to compete, so he kind of just always fed upon that. And my whole goal my entire childhood was to try and beat my dad.

Look at this lie, look at this shot. He's got to go dead vertical and he's got a ridge. He's got to carry this just barely over the long grass.

I took such a big cut at it to try and take the water out of play and the lie was not exactly the best.

He's gonna have to go vertical with the super high lob and just take his chances. Straight up. Oh yeah, look at this, Peter. Look at this shot. Look at this. Might go in, might go in, might go in. It is in! That was in— Does that remind you of anybody? One guy. That guy. At 14, he was already a scratch player and had won 5 junior world championship titles, and he knew exactly what it was that set him apart from his rivals.

My competitiveness. That sort of brings me through in the clutch. When you have to make a putt, you make a putt. You have to hit this shot, you hit the shot, you just sort of like drop into another zone and you block out everything. That's really helped me.

Well, we're back at the 17th and what a scene it is.

Johnny, I have seen a number of players putt from the back part of this green and the results have not been good.

Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? —better than most. Better than most. That was just another Tiger moment, one of the great long putts I've ever seen.

Something that I have always treated golf as, I've treated golf as a sport. And because I've played other sports growing up as a kid and competing against people who did train in that sport, We all train physically to become better able to compete. You know, it would be asinine for someone to go ahead and not train to play American football, or for someone not to train to play basketball. So that's why I do all the lifting, that's why, you know, I do all the running, I do all the training that it takes to become physically prepared to play.

Now Tiger, 167 yards. This one appears to be on line, I think. Oh no, you can't do that! That can't happen! I don't believe it. I don't believe it. How about that, huh? Lights out! Not bad, huh, Pidgey? He's left them in the dark again.

I've always felt that I've— I've always been pretty tough mentally. I've always felt that I've always had a mental edge over a lot of my opponents. Doesn't mean I have the physical ability to back it up, but I always felt that I could play with them mentally. I had the desire to win. I wanted to beat you, but sometimes my physical abilities weren't there, and that's why I needed to get my physical abilities up where I felt my mind was. My mind's won me a lot of tournaments, but physically I always felt that I wasn't as good as I could be. And I think that's what I've been working on to where I'm at now.

Tiger's got 152 yards. Should be just a nice comfortable 9-iron for him.

They're gonna go nuts when he hits this thing.

I think there are probably two goals that are pushing me right now. One is to get the all-time win record. Only three back of Sam on that one. And obviously the major record. You know, 4 back of Jack. But I got to put in perspective, you know, I've done it for— this is my 19th year and I've had 79 wins. That's a pretty good clip.

And the key is to be able to maintain that over the years I want to be able to do this for. I would regret finishing number 2 in either one of those lists if I didn't put the effort that I thought I could have. And I felt that I've done that so far in my entire career.

I'm going to continue doing it.

Difficulty here for Tiger not to put too much backspin on it. Well, that was actually a pitching wedge, so he's trying to knock it down. I like that play, and I like that shot. Go in! Oh, and Tiger Woods has suddenly vaulted to tie for second. That's right, that's my kid. So right now, I'd like you to meet Tiger Woods and his father, Earl Woods. Perfect, Earl! Good boy, Earl! How old is, uh, how old are you, Tiger? 2. 2? 213, huh, Bill?

213. And I want you to check this one out.

6-iron. Oh goodness, I saw him take a deep breath. Well, this is some guts right here. Uh-oh, that looked like it might have went right. This is right on line. What a shot! Does it get any better than this?

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I've never seen a guy, you know, be able to flip the switch from loose and laid back to wanting to absolutely kill somebody like he does, you know. And not only does he just want to win, but he wants to just bury you.

It's a story I tell many people. It's a par 4 there at Wentworth, and I hit it about maybe 2 feet, a foot and a half behind the hole, and he hit it on the back edge, and he putted it down and damn near made his putt for birdie. And so I threw him his ball back and I just expected him to give me my putt. And he turned his back to me and started facing the 12th tee. So I looked around and there was about 5,000 or 3,000 people in the gallery and I didn't know what to do. And so I started to mark my ball and I put my ball down and I turned around and I said, Tiger. And he says, he turned around and he says, what?

I said, you'd give me this at home, wouldn't you? You would make me putt that at home? I'll make sure, I'm gonna remember that next week.

And he looked at me and he says, "Well, you haven't won a hole yet, have you?" And I'm like, "Whoa, alrighty, fine." Yeah! So I putted it in, he's laughing on the back of the green. So I finally won my first hole. I walked back to him and I said, "Let me tell you something, pal." I said, "If you ever make me putt a putt like that again, our friendship is over." It's hard to explain, I guess it's just It's what we do.

That's what we have to do in order to win. I'm not there in a tournament to have fun and talk to my buddies and enjoy being around them. I'm there to win the tournament. Now after the tournament's over with, hey, let's go party. Let's go have a great time.