Stephen A.

Stephen A.

This is a transcendent athlete that came onto the scene.

這是一個超凡脫俗的運動員，來到了現場。

95 96 97 wins the Masters.

95 96 97贏得大師賽。

So you've been around with what he's done in his career, Not only within the game of golf, but it in the world of sport.

所以你一直都在關注他在職業生涯中所做的事情，不僅是在高爾夫比賽中，而且是在體育世界中。

What is your reaction when you hear this latest setback for Tiger?

當你聽到虎哥最近的這個挫折時，你有什麼反應？

Were you devastated?

你被摧毀了嗎？

Devastated?

崩潰了？

For him, your heart goes out to him and his family, obviously, is Children.

對於他來說，你的心是他的，而他的家人，顯然是孩子。

You wanna make sure that everybody is okay?

你想確定大家都沒事嗎？

You wanna make sure that he's okay?

你想確定他沒事嗎？

Um uh, in terms of his, you know, his excellence, how great he was and how great he is is a golfer.

嗯嗯，在他的方面，你知道，他的卓越， 他是多麼偉大，他是多麼偉大是一個高爾夫球手。

I mean, the man won the Masters five times for crying out loud in 1997 when he burst onto the scene, shot 18 under to win the Masters in 1997 we knew he had arrived because his father told us Here he comes and he will be on the scene and he will be a huge, huge individual for many, many years to come.

我的意思是，這個人贏得了大師賽五次大哭1997年，當他突然出現在現場，拍攝18下贏得大師賽在1997年，我們知道他已經到了，因為他的父親告訴我們在這裡，他來了，他將在現場，他將是一個巨大的，巨大的個人許多，許多年來。

He will be a transcendent figure transcending the world of golf and going beyond that.

他將是一個超越高爾夫世界的人物，並將超越這個世界。

Obviously, when the masses again in 2000 and 1, 2000 and two did it again in 2000 and five.

顯然，當民眾再次在2000年和1，2000年和2又做了2000年和5。

But what he did in 2000 and 19 was absolutely Herculean, considering all the obstacles that he had faced, uh, since his personal issues and then obviously subsequently back injuries, knees and things of that nature.

但他在2000年和19年所做的事情絕對是赫赫有名的，考慮到所有的障礙，他已經面臨，呃，因為他的個人問題，然後明顯隨後背傷，膝蓋和事情的性質。

To see him come back and toe win 1/15 major, uh, end up having, you know, you know, tying Sam Snead and winning 82 PGA Tour.

看到他回來，並贏得1/15大滿貫賽，呃，最終有，你知道，你知道，追平山姆斯內德和贏得82 PGA巡迴賽。

But you just can't say enough about how great and phenomenal he was.

但你就是說不完他的偉大和現象級。

I know that as a black man, I was never really interested in golf.

我知道，作為一個黑人，我對高爾夫從來沒有真正的興趣。

Tiger Woods came along, and that's really, really where resonates when you talk about him being a transcendent figure because he came into your home, he came into your living room.

泰格-伍茲出現了，當你說到他是一個超凡的人物時，那真的是，真的是共鳴的地方，因為他走進了你的家，他走進了你的客廳。

He competed in a world that a lot of black folks felt with distant and apart from themselves, and they weren't really invited to be a part of per se.

他所競爭的世界，很多黑人都覺得和自己有距離，而且他們本身並沒有被邀請成為其中的一部分。

And then you saw a tiger burst onto the scene and then all of a sudden everybody was interested in golf.

然後你看到一隻老虎突然出現在現場，然後突然間所有人都對高爾夫感興趣。

You had guys in the world of football and basketball and beyond, wanted to get themselves from custom made clubs.

你在足球和籃球等世界的傢伙，想讓自己從定製的俱樂部。

Wanted to get some, get their hands on some clubs just to go to the driving range over going to courts to be a Tiger Woods.

想得到一些，拿到手的球杆，只是為了去練習場比去球場做一個老虎伍茲。

So he's definitely a transcendent figure.

所以他絕對是一個超凡脫俗的人物。

We know, despite the trials and tribulations he's endured, he's truly, truly one of the great ones on.

我們知道，儘管他經歷了種種磨難，但他真的，真的是一個偉大的上。

We wish him nothing but the best.

我們祝願他一切順利。

To be quite honest with you.

跟你說實話

I'm sitting here today and I'm not, you know, trying to talk about it.

我今天坐在這裡，我不是，你知道，試圖談論它。

Epitaph, for trying to eulogize him or anything.

墓誌銘，因為想謳歌他什麼的。

I'm happy he's alive.

我很高興他還活著。

I'm happy that what we're hearing about is that leg injury.

我很高興，我們聽到的是那個腿傷。

Obviously, his career is a huge question mark right now, considering the recent back surgery that he had etcetera.

顯然，考慮到他最近做的背部手術等等，他的職業生涯現在是一個巨大的問號。

But in the end, when you hear that, its legs that it's his legs that are injured and you're hearing that it's not necessarily fatal, that this is not something that that took his life.

但是最後，當你聽到，它的腿是他的腿受傷了，你聽到的不一定是致命的，這不是什麼，把他的生命。

You're very, very relieved, particularly considering the fact that we're a little bit more than a year removed from losing the great Kobe Bryant.

你非常非常放心，尤其是考慮到我們距離失去偉大的科比-布萊恩特還有一年多的時間。

Um in that tragic fatal helicopter crash and what have you?

嗯，在那個悲慘的致命的直升機墜毀 和你有什麼？

Just what this year has entailed.

只是這一年所帶來的。

You're just relieved that Tiger Woods is alive and then surgery.

你剛剛鬆了一口氣，老虎伍茲還活著，然後手術。

And they're talking about surgery on his legs.

他們還說要給他的腿做手術。

A supposed to him having lost his life.

一個應該對他失去了生命。

Thank God that doesn't appear to be the case.

謝天謝地，看來不是這樣的。

Yeah, I had mentioned that when Ramona Shelburne was on with us and it's you're 100% right.

是啊，雷蒙娜-謝爾伯恩和我們在一起的時候我就說過了 你說得一點沒錯

The fact that he is in surgery and he is alive there was so much your eerily similar situations with the helicopter footage and and seeing this destruction around one of our great pro athletes.

事實上，他是在手術中，他還活著，有這麼多你黯然神傷的類似情況與直升機鏡頭和和看到這種破壞周圍我們偉大的職業運動員之一。

And in fact, Tiger Woods, uh, taken out of the car, put in surgery will continue to update.

而事實上，泰格-伍茲，呃，從車裡拿出來，放進手術室，將繼續更新。

It is we know.

這是我們知道的。

But Stephen A.

但Stephen A．

You touched on something that I want to get to because if we're being honest pre 97 the game of golf was a stuffy old white guy sport Tiger is raised and you confined video clips of him saying it.

你觸及的東西，我想得到的，因為如果我們是誠實的97年之前的高爾夫遊戲是一個悶悶不樂的老白人運動老虎是提出和你限制他說的視頻剪輯。

As a young boy, it is a teenager.

作為一個年輕的男孩，它是一個少年。

He knew that he was tasked with breaking the racial barrier of a sport at clubs and golf courses where he was not allowed to play in a 1997 when he learns that Masters and Jim Nance makes the call and he calls it a win for the ages.

他知道他的任務是打破一項運動的種族障礙，在俱樂部和高爾夫球場，他不允許在1997年打球，當他得知大師賽和吉姆-南斯做出決定時，他稱之為時代的勝利。

Not only did that mean that we had this new Phanom in Gulf, but Stephen A.

這不僅意味著我們在海灣有了這個新的魅族，而且斯蒂芬-A。

It meant that people that looked like him could you go to a golf course, could play golf, could succeed it.

這意味著，像他這樣的人，你可以去高爾夫球場，可以打高爾夫，可以成功。

Golf.

Golf.

How much is he meant to the black community in a sport that for so long it was like, You know what?

他對黑人社區的意義有多大，在這項運動中，這麼長時間以來，它就像，你知道嗎？

This is a country club.

這是一個鄉村俱樂部。

Stay away.

遠離。

This is not your sport.

這不是你的運動。

Oh, I meant everything.

哦，我的意思是一切。

I mean, you're you're talking to an individual right now that that has been a journalist for over 27 years covering the world of sports.

我的意思是，你... ...你正在和一個人說話... ...這個人已經做了27年的記者... ...覆蓋世界的體育。

Um, and I've never even known anybody that participate in the Gulf.

嗯，我甚至從來沒有認識任何人 參與海灣。

Nor did I care until Tiger Woods came along.

在老虎伍茲出現之前，我也沒有在意。

It's just that simple.

就是這麼簡單。

A za black man.

一個黑人。

We didn't feel invited per se.

我們本身並不覺得被邀請。

Obviously you had the right to compete.

顯然，你有競爭的權利。

You have the right to participate.

你有權利參與。

But when ah, sport appears to have ostracized disenfranchised communities, at least it gives that impression.

但是，當啊，體育出現了排擠被剝奪公民權的社區時，至少給人這樣的印象。

Uh, the bottom line is that you're not going to see yourself gravitating towards that, Um, you could look at the sport of tennis.

呃，底線是，你不會 看到自己的引力 對，嗯，你可以看看網球運動。

Arthur Ashe participated.

阿瑟-阿什參加。

But when Venus and Serena Williams came along, all of a sudden, you have black folks paying attention more than ever before to the world of tennis.

但當維納斯和塞雷娜-威廉姆斯出現後，突然間，你有黑人比以往任何時候都更關注網球世界。

Well, the same is applicable to the sport of golf.

嗯，同樣適用於高爾夫運動。

That wasn't the case with football.

足球就不是這樣了。

It certainly isn't hasn't been the case with basketball, but in a sport like golf.

籃球當然不是一直以來的情況，但在高爾夫這樣的運動中。

You know, you definitely got that impression.

你知道，你肯定有這種印象。

And then Tiger Woods came along and you found everybody rooting about Tiger.

然後老虎伍茲出現了，你發現每個人都在為老虎加油。

They didn't even know who that is.

他們甚至不知道那是誰。

Competitors were.

競爭者是：

They didn't know about Jack Nicholas and his 18 majors, and they didn't care about all of that stuff.

他們不知道傑克-尼古拉斯和他的18個專業，他們也不關心這些東西。

What they cared about was what Tiger Woods was doing.

他們關心的是老虎伍茲在做什麼。

And you ultimately became or informed because you saw a guy that was nothing short of great that looked like he was going to shatter records and you were looking at the records to see what records he would ultimately shatter.

而你最終成為或知情，是因為你看到了一個無比偉大的傢伙，看起來他要打破記錄，你在看記錄，看他最終會打破什麼記錄。

That was the mentality that it was.

這就是當時的心態。

If it were not for Tiger, you wouldn't have cared about all of those other things you would have cared about Sam Snead and and what he had accomplished with, you know, his 80 or 81 PGA Tour.

如果不是因為老虎，你不會關心所有這些其他的事情，你會關心薩姆-斯內德和他所取得的成就，你知道，他的80或81年PGA巡迴賽。

When you were a kid about Jack Nicklaus's 18 majors, when they cared about those things, you cared about it because you knew that Tiger was coming for all of those records and a black man was gonna knock him down.

當你還是個孩子的時候，傑克-尼克勞斯的18個大滿貫，當他們關心這些事情的時候，你關心它，因為你知道老虎會為了所有這些記錄而來，一個黑人會把他打倒。

That was the mentality that you had.

這就是你的心態。

That was how you viewed it as a black person coming out of, ah, black community.

那是你作為一個黑人出來的，啊，黑人社區的人的看法。

And that's the way it has always been.

一直以來都是這樣的。

And no matter what you know, you look at Tiger Woods with an incredible level of pride because you think about how to score how to sport has grown before.

而無論你知道什麼，你看老虎伍茲的時候都會有一種不可思議的自豪感，因為你想到如何得分如何運動之前的發展。

I very eyes how popularized it has become the money, the revenue that has been generated by the sport, tigers that you know he's at the front of the line with all of that making that happen.

我很眼睛如何普及它已經成為錢，收入，已經產生的運動，老虎，你知道他是在前面與所有的使發生的線。

If it wasn't for Tiger Woods, one could easily argue there's no way on Earth that the sport would have generated the same kind of revenue is generated over the years and certainly would not have gotten a ratings.

如果不是泰格-伍茲，人們很容易說地球上沒有辦法這項運動會產生同樣的收入是多年來產生的，當然也不會有收視率。

The television ratings that it had received.

它所獲得的電視收視率。

It wouldn't have the interest, you know, emanating from various communities throughout this nation, not just the white community, even the black community, the Hispanic community, the Asian American community.

它不會有興趣，你知道， 發出的各種社區 整個國家， 不只是白人社區， 甚至黑人社區， 西班牙裔社區， 亞裔美國人社區。

The list goes on and on.

諸如此類，不勝枚舉。

When you are a transcendent figure stint, you know, just, you know, just touched with greatness.

當你是一個超凡的人物吝嗇，你知道，只是，你知道，只是感動與偉大。

Uh, everybody's going to support you, and that's the way it was for Tiger was.

呃，每個人都會支持你，這就是老虎的方式是。

That's the way it has always been, and we're hoping that we'll get an opportunity to continue to root for and cheer for him as time moves forward.

一直以來都是這樣的，我們希望隨著時間的推移，我們能有機會繼續為他加油、助威。