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After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.