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I think I executed very well, the wind was crazy today. I shanked on the first shot because it was going everywhere. I was happy I was able to keep the ball in the court. – Sloane Stephens	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think( Sunday vs. Golden State) is important from the aspect as far as The Warriors -LRB- 70-9 -RRB- needing to work on some things, the Warriors -LRB- 70-9 -RRB- have a great plan going forward to be full strength for the playoffs, and that's the most important thing. – San Antonio	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we don't have home court advantage, oh well. We start on the road, if we don't win enough games to get home court, you still have a playoff series to play. You have to win on the road if you are going to be considered a good team. Once the regular season is over, you move on to the next season, the playoffs. – Dwyane Wade with 17 points	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After what I did yesterday, you feel quite embarrassed ... It was a very weird, surreal feeling this morning, i felt very bad when I got to the course ... I walked on to the range and even the players and caddies, they kind of just looked at me as if I don't have pants on or something ... Not a nice feeling. – Ernie Els	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm very happy with where I finished but very disappointed that I made two three-putts in a row, they were all good putts and it just happened. What can you do ? – The South Korean-born New Zealander	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Four or five years ago I was laughed at when I suggested this should happen, there was not enough funding at WADA and there was no political will. – Christian Baumgartner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Norway Weightlifting is leading the way in this respect, i did not imagine, a few years ago, that I would be saying that. – Christian Baumgartner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
People outside the sport know weightlifting for the wrong reasons, only for all the positive tests, we need to change the image of weightlifting, to promote our heroes. We must focus more on the human side of our top athletes. – Antonio Urso	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He knew he never touched or punched her, and he was not going to pay a penny to get out of this as he knew he didn't do anything wrong. – Harvey Steinberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My legal team appealed against the six-month suspension because we thought it was too long and punitive given that I was an employee and not an elected member of the board like the others, now that our appeal is not successful we are looking forward to a fair and open hearing. I maintain my innocence, hence we want the hearing conducted in public because I want to face our accusers. – Isaac Kamande Mwangi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
(It's) extremely tough (to) come back home after a tough loss (in Dallas on Wednesday) and just give the game away, we've still got an opportunity, we've just got to win out and have some other teams lose. – James Harden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I loved running 600 at the Birmingham Diamond League... Running 600m is a good part of my preparations this Olympic Year, my training has been going well and I am looking forward to a good year. – David Rudisha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Birmingham Diamond League will be a good race to test myself early in the season and start the road to Rio. – Dafne Schippers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think that we had a very unusual friendship amongst competitors, it was so fiercely competitive, and we made it very clear we wanted to beat the hell out of each other. And when we did, we looked the other man in the eye and said, 'Well done.'. – Gary Player	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think that everybody was happy to see Arnold out on the tee, i think Arnold was happy to be on the tee. I think he would have preferred to hit a golf ball. – Jack Nicklaus	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Most of the top 10 guys in the world rankings have won lately, or at least have shown some very good form, you want the best players playing great coming in here and we've got that. The guys in form are Jason Day and Adam Scott. Bubba Watson is also very good around here and there's (defending champion) Jordan Spieth and (Henrik) Stenson. – Bernhard Langer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was a relief that they permitted us to take part in the Olympics, they are keeping a close eye and there won't be any excuse. We must work hard. – Ayalew Tilahun	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Hopefully after my third surgery, the problem is almost fixed and I am here, playing tennis again, i'm still confident in my game and still looking forward to playing with the top guys in the same condition, not like (Indian Wells), when I couldn't hit my backhand at 100 per cent. Maybe in the future I will get that chance. – Del Potro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The country is committed and what we are telling them (WADA) is ... let our processes go through, i'm confident Kenya will participate at the Olympics and win more gold ... the problem would have been if there was lack of commitment in terms on enacting. That commitment is there at the National Assembly. – Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we talk about meldonium, the main task now is to stabilize the situation and minimize our losses, the second task is to assist those Russian athletes who are under the investigation - there are around 40 of them. – Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward. – Avery Bradley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They played really, really well and really hard. – Brad Stevens	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I played with Jack last year (in the Par-3 contest) and he made one, he told me it was my turn this year. – Georgia Gary Player	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After two hole-in-ones, you got to man up and hit the shot, justin couldn’t do it. – Rickie Fowler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I think I executed very well, the wind was crazy today. I shanked on the first shot because it was going everywhere. I was happy I was able to keep the ball in the court.

– Sloane Stephens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think( Sunday vs. Golden State) is important from the aspect as far as The Warriors -LRB- 70-9 -RRB- needing to work on some things, the Warriors -LRB- 70-9 -RRB- have a great plan going forward to be full strength for the playoffs, and that's the most important thing.

– San Antonio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we don't have home court advantage, oh well. We start on the road, if we don't win enough games to get home court, you still have a playoff series to play. You have to win on the road if you are going to be considered a good team. Once the regular season is over, you move on to the next season, the playoffs.

– Dwyane Wade with 17 points

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After what I did yesterday, you feel quite embarrassed ... It was a very weird, surreal feeling this morning, i felt very bad when I got to the course ... I walked on to the range and even the players and caddies, they kind of just looked at me as if I don't have pants on or something ... Not a nice feeling.

– Ernie Els

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm very happy with where I finished but very disappointed that I made two three-putts in a row, they were all good putts and it just happened. What can you do ?

– The South Korean-born New Zealander

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Four or five years ago I was laughed at when I suggested this should happen, there was not enough funding at WADA and there was no political will.

– Christian Baumgartner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Norway Weightlifting is leading the way in this respect, i did not imagine, a few years ago, that I would be saying that.

– Christian Baumgartner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People outside the sport know weightlifting for the wrong reasons, only for all the positive tests, we need to change the image of weightlifting, to promote our heroes. We must focus more on the human side of our top athletes.

– Antonio Urso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He knew he never touched or punched her, and he was not going to pay a penny to get out of this as he knew he didn't do anything wrong.

– Harvey Steinberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My legal team appealed against the six-month suspension because we thought it was too long and punitive given that I was an employee and not an elected member of the board like the others, now that our appeal is not successful we are looking forward to a fair and open hearing. I maintain my innocence, hence we want the hearing conducted in public because I want to face our accusers.

– Isaac Kamande Mwangi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

(It's) extremely tough (to) come back home after a tough loss (in Dallas on Wednesday) and just give the game away, we've still got an opportunity, we've just got to win out and have some other teams lose.

– James Harden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I loved running 600 at the Birmingham Diamond League... Running 600m is a good part of my preparations this Olympic Year, my training has been going well and I am looking forward to a good year.

– David Rudisha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Birmingham Diamond League will be a good race to test myself early in the season and start the road to Rio.

– Dafne Schippers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think that we had a very unusual friendship amongst competitors, it was so fiercely competitive, and we made it very clear we wanted to beat the hell out of each other. And when we did, we looked the other man in the eye and said, 'Well done.'.

– Gary Player

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think that everybody was happy to see Arnold out on the tee, i think Arnold was happy to be on the tee. I think he would have preferred to hit a golf ball.

– Jack Nicklaus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most of the top 10 guys in the world rankings have won lately, or at least have shown some very good form, you want the best players playing great coming in here and we've got that. The guys in form are Jason Day and Adam Scott. Bubba Watson is also very good around here and there's (defending champion) Jordan Spieth and (Henrik) Stenson.

– Bernhard Langer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was a relief that they permitted us to take part in the Olympics, they are keeping a close eye and there won't be any excuse. We must work hard.

– Ayalew Tilahun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Hopefully after my third surgery, the problem is almost fixed and I am here, playing tennis again, i'm still confident in my game and still looking forward to playing with the top guys in the same condition, not like (Indian Wells), when I couldn't hit my backhand at 100 per cent. Maybe in the future I will get that chance.

– Del Potro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The country is committed and what we are telling them (WADA) is ... let our processes go through, i'm confident Kenya will participate at the Olympics and win more gold ... the problem would have been if there was lack of commitment in terms on enacting. That commitment is there at the National Assembly.

– Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we talk about meldonium, the main task now is to stabilize the situation and minimize our losses, the second task is to assist those Russian athletes who are under the investigation - there are around 40 of them.

– Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.

– Avery Bradley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They played really, really well and really hard.

– Brad Stevens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I played with Jack last year (in the Par-3 contest) and he made one, he told me it was my turn this year.

– Georgia Gary Player

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After two hole-in-ones, you got to man up and hit the shot, justin couldn’t do it.

– Rickie Fowler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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