New Delhi, April 3 -- "The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today."

Tiger Woods said this in January 2008, at the absolute peak of his powers. He was the most dominant golfer on the planet, physically invincible by all appearances. He spoke with the quiet certainty of a man who had never seriously questioned his own trajectory.

Eighteen years later, the quote reads very differently.

Here's the complete quote:

"The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow."

The years that followed 200...