Tony Finau Quotes

Tony Finau

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 14, 1989

I'm not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

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I wear green on Sunday because it's my mom's favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.

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The things that transpired in my life, they didn't happen in the order that they're supposed to, or are ideal. Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.

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I'm from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything, I always felt I've been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.

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If the rules aren't going to protect the integrity of the game, then they're wrong.

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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It's a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud. Sports are big. You learn to fight.

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I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.

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It's the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age - he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers. We all wanted to be like him.

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It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings. There are a lot of variables to playing mini-tour golf because of the finances. If you don't play well, you're often losing a lot of your own money.

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I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

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Rose Park is a community I'm very proud to be from.

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It's a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it's like... to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.

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I think there's too many rules in golf. And I mean that's easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.

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It's cool to be able to dunk. I'm pretty tall and pretty long. My body's probably built more for basketball than for golf.

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There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.

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I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We're very respectful people, and very humble people... and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.

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Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.

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I don't really get to attend church. That's definitely one of the challenges. I'm always playing on Sunday, and that's tough because I really never get to take the sacrament - maybe once every three or four months when I'm home and have a week off.

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