If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

O’Neal is using a blunt, locker-room idiom—“if you got the game, you got the game”—to argue that elite ability is self-evident and transcends setting or sport. By pointing to Tiger Woods playing with Greg Norman, he invokes golf’s culture of pairing top competitors together as a sign of mutual status: the best end up in the same arenas, measured against one another. The remark also functions as a defense of meritocracy in athletics: reputation, hype, or talk matters less than demonstrable performance. Implicitly, it’s a reminder that greatness is validated by who you can compete with (or be grouped alongside) at the highest level.