PEOPLE are GOING to paying attention to him whether they love him or HATE him. So I THINK Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
In 1997, I was working with Greg Wilson of Red BALL Tiger, our AD agency at the time, when he CAME up with an addition to the famous slogan 'I guarantee it' that I was KNOWN for SAYING.
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ICE hockey...' - and then I used to say 'GOLF,' but TIGER took over golf! - 'and Picasso and STILL be as black as the ace of spades.'
I don't THINK there is a PERFECT athlete. But if I had to come CLOSE to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ABILITY, he's HUMBLE and he's very good at what he does.
TIGER is a sincere and hard working ACTOR. I have always found him PASSIONATE about his WORK. He is not the kind to believe in taking short-cuts to SUCCESS.
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought LIKE a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a JUDGE to SHOW why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. ANOTHER example of that is the torture scandal.