Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rory McIlroy

The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.

Rory McIlroy

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

Rory McIlroy

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

Rory McIlroy

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

Rory McIlroy

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

Rory McIlroy

It's been 18 months since I won on The European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

Rory McIlroy

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

Rory McIlroy

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Rory McIlroy

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

Rory McIlroy

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Stewart Cink

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

Stewart Cink

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

Stewart Cink

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

Stewart Cink

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

Stephen Potter

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.

Mike Holder

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

Payne Stewart

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

Payne Stewart

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

Payne Stewart

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Payne Stewart

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Peter Jacobsen

Your confidence is the 15th club in your bag. You'd like it to be a thick headed driver. But it sometimes seems like a pretty weak little stick.

Peter Jacobsen

If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.

Peter Jacobsen

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

Peter Jacobsen

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

Pete Sampras

Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.

Ted Allen

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

Sean Hannity

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

Seve Ballesteros

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.

Seve Ballesteros

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.

Seve Ballesteros

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.