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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Sports saved my life.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.