Tiger comments on current events

[tabatha]

By Tiger Woods

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means. For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives. The stories in particular that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious. Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect.

But no matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don't share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it's difficult.

I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology

http://web.tigerwoods.com/news/article/200912027740572/news/

[Kingofalldems]

1. In other words--'It really sucks that I got caught.'

[tabatha]

3. He probably would not have said anything

had there not been reports yesterday of other women in Las Vegas (?).

[Kingofalldems]

4. Exactly--He's been busted

[Kingofalldems]

6. dupe

[rsmith6621]

2. So In Other Words

Mrs Wood did beat him with a 9 Iron and scratch him up......sounds to me he is saying I have been unfaithful without saying...................UNFAITHFUL...!!!!


I have lost all respect for him....he is no longer a role model....If he would be a MAN and just say....I screwed UP and screwed around AND cheated ON MY WIFE LAST FRIDAY THIS WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN UNDER THE RADAR BY NOW.....

That statement is designed to protect his pocketbook and not his dignity....


GO AWAY TIGER...

[onenote]

7. have you lost respect for every public person that has had an affair?

That's a pretty long list.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. people who cheat don't deserve any respect

I absolutely lose respect for someone that does that. Doesn't matter if they're a public person or not. If you're in a committed relationship with someone and decide you no longer want to be committed, then do the respectable thing and get out of that committed relationship first.

[Hepburn]

9. +1...

...there are few things which I dislike more than a person who cheats on a personal relationship.

[tabatha]

11. And it seems he did it more than once.

He has too much money.

[Hepburn]

12. Guess he was thinking with the wrong head....

...yes? :shrug:

[roguevalley]

18. agreed, hepburn. he deserves public humiliation but his wife and kids

don't.

[onenote]

10. a list of people for whom you have absolutely lost respect:

Bill Clinton
John Edwards
Edward Brooke
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
John Lennon
Bruce Springsteen

and on and on and on.

I don't applaud these people for being unfaithful, but I don't base my judgment as to whether, taking their lives as a whole, they are entitled to be respected, based on that one element of their character either.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

14. Other than golf and infidelity...

...what do you know about Tiger? Perhaps if you knew more, you might lose respect for him.


As for your list, I've lost respect for Bill Clinton. Only within the last year did I come to realize that he was merely a corporatist extension of Reaganomics.

[onenote]

16. what about FDR? He was unfaithful to Eleanor

I thought infidelity was an "absolute" deal breaker for you?

As for Tiger, I respect his ability -- he is almost certainly the greatest golfer in history to date. I don't respect the fact that he cheated on his wife. As for his character otherwise - from what I know and have read, he has good traits and bad traits. He is a control freak, and when it comes to playing golf, single minded, rude and abrasive. He also has donated money to a lot of worthy causes.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

17. Deal breaker for me? Sheesh, I'm practically the only one here...

...exposing the other Tiger, and I'm not talking about his sexual transgressions. Clinton's affair, Edwards' affair, not deal breakers for me. The impact of infidelity doesn't extend far beyond the confines of the household.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7133095

IMO, his charity is little more than a shiny dime.

[roguevalley]

20. google woods and dubai.

[roguevalley]

19. talent can be respected. but the vessel can be scorned. a betrayal

of the most intimate kind is the worst one of all.

[DrDan]

5. must be anticipating a hit on those $100M in endorsements

[tabatha]

13. Woods, wife in intense marriage counseling

December 2, 2009
BY BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist

The continuing revelations of alleged Tiger Woods infidelities has placed the golfing megastar's management team in what one insider called "panic mode" early Wednesday morning.

Despite the release of photographs of Woods looking a bit too friendly with a woman in a Las Vegas nightclub, and a recording — allegedly of a phone call Woods made to former "Tool Academy" reality show alum Jaimee Grubbs — the Woods source insists "Tiger still believes stonewalling the press on this is the best approach."

Woods did, however, issue a statement Wednesday morning on his Web site, saying “I haven't been true to my values” and “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart," he said.

• Also, don't look for Woods' wife, Elin, to be moving out of the couple's Windermere, FL., mansion anytime soon. The links legend's spouse is reportedly being paid a hefty seven-figure amount — immediately transfered into an account she alone controls — to stick with her husband.

On top of that, my source indicated Elin Nordegren Woods, the mother of Tiger's two children, has demanded — and is getting — a total rewrite on the couple's prenuptial agreement making the incentives for her to remain Mrs. Tiger Woods even more enticing.

At this point, the couple needed to remain married for 10 years in order for Woods' wife to collect a splitsville settlement of $20 million. I'm being told that time frame has been shortened — and the dollar amount increased "substantially."

• Perhaps most important of all, the Woodses have already begun intense marriage counseling — at their home — with a counselor who has been conducting sessions several times daily.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/1916410,zwecker-tiger-woods-marriage-elin-prenup-120209.article#

[Holly_Hobby]

15. And another one surfaces....

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/12/02/2009-12-02_tiger_woods_triple_bogey_kalika_moquin_is_third_alleged_mistress_with_jaimee_gru.html