MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 8, 2025

Angel Cabrera

Quick Quotes

Q. Could you talk about your emotions being back here and especially coming back here off a victory on Sunday.

ANGEL CABRERA: I'm very happy, had a great week and that obviously gives me a lot of confidence to even play better this week.

Q. How would you describe the appreciation you've had for being back here?

ANGEL CABRERA: I'm very grateful and obviously the people of the golf world are very great with me and I just appreciated the way they treated me.

Q. Do you ever think there was a time that maybe you wouldn't be back here?

ANGEL CABRERA: No, I never thought of that, I just let things pass, and I never thought either I was going to come back or not, it's just the way things happen.

Q. What did you miss most about not being here?

ANGEL CABRERA: My colleagues just walking this great golf course, just enjoying golf.

Q. What would you say to the people that maybe think you shouldn't be here?

ANGEL CABRERA: I respect their opinion and everybody has their own opinion and I respect that.

Q. Do you look at everything happening now as a second chance in your life?

ANGEL CABRERA: Life has given me another opportunity, I got to take advantage of that and I want to do the right things in this second opportunity.

Q. What has changed in life after going through this process of being incarcerated?

ANGEL CABRERA: There was a stage in my life of five years, four, five years, that they weren't the right things I should have done. Before that I was okay, so I just have to keep doing what I know I can do right.

Q. Personally what you've done in the past, do you think you belong here?

ANGEL CABRERA: I won the Masters, why not?

Q. How long did it take for your game to come back, when you picked up clubs again and started playing, was it a long process or did it feel like you had never left the game?

ANGEL CABRERA: I started to practice a lot getting in form, I don't know if I'm exactly my game's back technically. I just started to practice a lot and get ready for this moment.

Q. What about the dinner tonight? What will you look forward to, what have you missed?

ANGEL CABRERA: I just want to have a great time. The family of golf, they're great colleagues and I missed them, I just want to have a great time with them.

Q. When you started playing again did you ever think you would see a day like Saturday when you hoisted a trophy again -- or Sunday, I'm sorry.

ANGEL CABRERA: No, I didn't think of anything special, I knew I just had to practice, practice, and things would learn by themselves and that would happen, but I wasn't thinking of winning that trophy.

Q. Have you had any conversations with some of your fellow champions in the locker room and what has been their sort of reaction to having you back here?

ANGEL CABRERA: I haven't really seen anybody because it rained yesterday, I had to come register, I came early this morning. The only one I've always been in contact with is Gary Player. Since the situation I had, he's always been in contact with me, always been by my side. So the only guy I talked to is Gary.

Q. How much support did Gary give you through this?

ANGEL CABRERA: Like any colleague, he wanted to give me advice, that things were going to happen and things would get better, and that's what's happened.

Q. It looks like you're trying to move forward, you said your second chance in life, but how would you describe the regret you may have?

ANGEL CABRERA: Obviously I regret things that happened and you learn from them, but at the same time those are in the past and we have to look forward what's coming.

Q. This course has always brought the best out in your game very often, do you think it can again this week?

ANGEL CABRERA: It's obviously playing longer, I don't have that distance that I used to have, but you never know, it's the Masters, anything can happen.

Q. What will it feel like to put that Green Jacket on tonight?

ANGEL CABRERA: Obviously joyfulness, and to put it on it's going to feel great again.