You’re Perfect, Now Change (Tiger)

You’re Perfect, Now Change (Tiger)

When Tiger Woods and his buddies are lifting weights and approach exhaustion, somebody always asks, “How many more repetitions?”
“The answer is always, ‘Four,’ ” Woods said on Monday after winning his third U.S. Open. “That’s four as in ‘forever.’ ” And he laughed.

That laughter, full of ambition, ego, bravery and perhaps pathology, is the soundtrack in the parallel universe of Tiger Woods. It’s a world shared by the rare people in every other occupation who, for whatever reasons — some noble, some nuts, some both — always rebel at limits and push beyond. Beyond what?

As Marlon Brando said, when asked what he was rebelling against, the answer is always the same: “Whatdaya got?”

washingtonpost.com
6/19/08