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Tiger Woods faces a career-threatening personal and physical crisis
“He was carrying an extremely large load in terms of participation in the redirection of the tour. He's been a crucial element and a person in Rolap's year for how the tour might refashion itself. He has been a super active participant in the TGL and the viability of that property really depends on him.”
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Opioid use likely stems from Tiger's intense physical ramp-up
“Now that he's in ramp-up mode, does that mean the pain meds need to be elevated? And did that just sort of change the overall risk paradigm? Like, oh, you know, I'm going to practice. That means I have to take the pain meds.”
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Tiger's fame creates an unsustainable level of personal pressure
“The point is, he was the single most famous person of our childhood. He was our version of Elvis, and he went completely sideways over the next 10, 12 years. And sometimes I wonder about, you know, if that level of fame and greatness, it seems like it's really hard for a lot of people to handle.”
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LeBron James defines the gold standard for career sustainability
“It makes me appreciate LeBron even more, like the career he's had, and how little went wrong, and the stuff we nipped on is all like stupid shit, right? But for the most part, like he really handled his business. When you think like, just being like a child prodigy, basically all the way through, it's about as good as it's gonna go.”
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Tiger served as the de facto leader for players
“Tiger also kind of occupies that same space. One of the roles that Tiger was playing in trying to provide direction to the PGA Tour and Brian Rollap was really the voice of the players. He was, there's no union, they're not organized, but I really was sort of likening him to the head of the players union.”