Is It Acceptable For a Buddhist to Lie Through His Busted Teeth?

In the midst of epic procrastination, I have found myself finally getting a chance to watch the Tiger Woods statement from this past Friday. I must say that it lived up (or down) to my expectations. At no point during the entire 10 minutes of his dramatic staring into the camera and pausing after every few words did he say anything that I found to be believable.

During the statement he says "It is not what you achieve in life, it's what you overcome." This statement seems to have been the driving force for his whole career. From the very start, all that was talked about was what he has had to overcome as an African American golfer or as the youngest guy on the course. What?! He's never had to overcome anything of any importance to the world. All he's had to overcome, prior to his current situation, is a father that forced him into golf before he could even walk.

Here's some advice Tiger, if you want to overcome this one, just keep it in your pants!

I think my favorite part of the statement is the point in which Tiger brings up his faith in Buddhism. He tells us that Buddhism teaches us that "a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security" and that it teaches him to "stop following every impulse and practice restraint." He admits that he's lost track of these teachings.

I would like to ask this question, when exactly did he lose track of these ideas? And I would argue that it was long before he started sleeping around with waitresses, bartenders and strippers. What about all of the multimillion dollar endorsements? Now that he's getting "back on track," is he going to give this lifestyle up in order to properly follow his Buddhist faith? Some how I highly doubt this will be the case.

How about some more advice, Tiger, get some acting lessons because I didn't buy a word of it.

To those that keep saying golf can't survive without Tiger: Get a life! Golf was just fine before he came along and it will get along just as good without him. And while I'm at it, the thousands of you that he mentions that sent him the emails and letters of support, you can get a life too! Do you really think he read any of that crap? I'm fairly certain that he didn't. And do you really think that he truthfully cares? Again, I don't think so, Tim. (Home Improvement reference)

And to the rest of us that have the ability to see through the crap and know what he did was wrong and that he's just saying this stuff so people will buy his golf equipment again, thank you for not being ignorant! Tiger Woods is no saint (or whatever the Buddhists have)... He's just another athlete with too much money and no sense of right or wrong.