If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started.
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I'm already feeling like I'm playing well and getting more and more comfortable.