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He was also bad, there was one highlight I think and that was Pereira. Players can play bad and certainly when you have only six days training session in your legs and you have to play 45 minutes, everybody can think that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy. The first match he played very well and now he played bad. But that is also a process. – Van Gaal	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It means my dream, my dream to be in the Olympic Games and if we can play on Copacabana it would be the biggest dream of my life, it is like this crowd always full and they cheer for every team with their heart. It is one of the best places to practice and play. – Lili Maestrini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I really want to be able to go to Copacabana and represent Canada there because that is the home of the sport I love, it is the birthplace of it and people their appreciate it so much, they love it. – Melissa Humana-Paredes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You need to have the big performance when it matters and Andre De Grasse has proven that, before, Andre De Grasse was kind of in the background but now that's it's on him it's going to be great to see how Andre De Grasse responds to that bit of pressure. – Tony Sharpe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Holing putts is an important part of the Solheim Cup, of matchplay golf, i'll see Laura at the Scottish Open this week and then at the Ricoh British Women's Open the week after. – Swede Koch	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's all going to come down to this last month, laura in good form is always a great player so we'll see how she does this coming month but obviously she's like everybody else, she's had almost two years to get points. – Swede Koch	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Of course we want to win but it's also a great week for our sport, for being on center stage, and we want to provide a good showcase for women's golf. – Swede Koch	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This just wasn't one of those, it's hard to do that every single time. – Zach Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a tough feeling being that close in a major. It doesn't matter the historical element of it, i believe I'll have plenty of opportunities like I did today. – Jordan Spieth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Mexico is the team that fills the stadiums and we are not being treated well... We should be getting more consideration, we had to wait three hours, then they packed two teams( into the plane) and CONCACAF people, I don't know why. We were all squashed. – Miguel Herrera	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel blessed to be the champion and honored to be part of the history of this game, it has been a week of patience, courage and trust. I can't play any better than I did. I just stayed in it, waited for the opportunities and made a few putts. – Scotland American Zach Johnson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I froze trying to assess the situation and Mick fought and it was probably that that gave me the courage to go toward him, i think if any award was going to be given out, they definitely go to Mick for his amazing courage. I don't know how many people would have taken that thing on. – Julian Wilson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You have to learn how to handle so much, stay organized, and then you go around and you travel and you play some very difficult courses set up very difficult, they put the pins tough. You play in tough conditions. You play tough courses against the other best amateurs in the world, and you also have to handle your school obligations. – Georgia Tech graduate Schniederjans	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm grateful. I'm humbled. I'm honored, this is the birthplace of the game, and that jug means so much in sports. – Zach Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Par-birdie is a perfect way to finish here, and that would get the job done. – Jordan Spieth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'm very pleased with the way I played, i think the way that I played this week and especially today would have won the U.S. Open by more than just a shot. I didn't play as well there. It's just that's the kind of golf that was played by the field this week, it just took some special golf. Whoever comes out the champion, that's a hell of a major. – Jordan Spieth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If I stood on 17th tee box and you told me I had that putt for par on the hole. – Jordan Spieth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I knew the guys behind me were getting it going, i knew Zach Johnson played really well out in front of me, so I knew I had to get a couple more birdies, but those last four holes or so were playing really tough. I just needed to get fairways and greens and just give myself opportunities. – Sergio Garcia	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We gave it a great effort. – Jordan Spieth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
President Blatter's resignation cannot be dragged out any longer. He must leave now, an interim independent leadership must be appointed to administer the process of the elections, in addition to the reforms that are being discussed prior to the elections. – Prince Ali	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We faced the same questions last time around, we had agreed to give our power data to UK anti-doping and the CADF( Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation). The CADF didn't want The CADF, UK anti-doping had The CADF but I don't think they did anything with The CADF but we were willing to give The CADF to an independent body and we could do the same again. – Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the area, you know there will always be contact but there was no push, he (Peralta) made a drama of it. In the end it's an injustice and we're leaving (the tournament) very hurt, it's not right that in the final minute there should be this injustice against us but we're leaving with our heads high. – Costa Rica Roy Miller	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's very important to note that it's an international series ... so when Americans do (well) and beat the rest of the world it's great, to do it here in the heartland...it's pretty cool. – Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Something broke. As soon as I let it up, something gave out, it sucks when it's completely out of our hands, when something fails. – Juan Pablo Montoya	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

He was also bad, there was one highlight I think and that was Pereira. Players can play bad and certainly when you have only six days training session in your legs and you have to play 45 minutes, everybody can think that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy. The first match he played very well and now he played bad. But that is also a process.

– Van Gaal

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It means my dream, my dream to be in the Olympic Games and if we can play on Copacabana it would be the biggest dream of my life, it is like this crowd always full and they cheer for every team with their heart. It is one of the best places to practice and play.

– Lili Maestrini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I really want to be able to go to Copacabana and represent Canada there because that is the home of the sport I love, it is the birthplace of it and people their appreciate it so much, they love it.

– Melissa Humana-Paredes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You need to have the big performance when it matters and Andre De Grasse has proven that, before, Andre De Grasse was kind of in the background but now that's it's on him it's going to be great to see how Andre De Grasse responds to that bit of pressure.

– Tony Sharpe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Holing putts is an important part of the Solheim Cup, of matchplay golf, i'll see Laura at the Scottish Open this week and then at the Ricoh British Women's Open the week after.

– Swede Koch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's all going to come down to this last month, laura in good form is always a great player so we'll see how she does this coming month but obviously she's like everybody else, she's had almost two years to get points.

– Swede Koch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Of course we want to win but it's also a great week for our sport, for being on center stage, and we want to provide a good showcase for women's golf.

– Swede Koch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This just wasn't one of those, it's hard to do that every single time.

– Zach Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a tough feeling being that close in a major. It doesn't matter the historical element of it, i believe I'll have plenty of opportunities like I did today.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Mexico is the team that fills the stadiums and we are not being treated well... We should be getting more consideration, we had to wait three hours, then they packed two teams( into the plane) and CONCACAF people, I don't know why. We were all squashed.

– Miguel Herrera

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel blessed to be the champion and honored to be part of the history of this game, it has been a week of patience, courage and trust. I can't play any better than I did. I just stayed in it, waited for the opportunities and made a few putts.

– Scotland American Zach Johnson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I froze trying to assess the situation and Mick fought and it was probably that that gave me the courage to go toward him, i think if any award was going to be given out, they definitely go to Mick for his amazing courage. I don't know how many people would have taken that thing on.

– Julian Wilson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You have to learn how to handle so much, stay organized, and then you go around and you travel and you play some very difficult courses set up very difficult, they put the pins tough. You play in tough conditions. You play tough courses against the other best amateurs in the world, and you also have to handle your school obligations.

– Georgia Tech graduate Schniederjans

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm grateful. I'm humbled. I'm honored, this is the birthplace of the game, and that jug means so much in sports.

– Zach Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Par-birdie is a perfect way to finish here, and that would get the job done.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm very pleased with the way I played, i think the way that I played this week and especially today would have won the U.S. Open by more than just a shot. I didn't play as well there. It's just that's the kind of golf that was played by the field this week, it just took some special golf. Whoever comes out the champion, that's a hell of a major.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If I stood on 17th tee box and you told me I had that putt for par on the hole.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I knew the guys behind me were getting it going, i knew Zach Johnson played really well out in front of me, so I knew I had to get a couple more birdies, but those last four holes or so were playing really tough. I just needed to get fairways and greens and just give myself opportunities.

– Sergio Garcia

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We gave it a great effort.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

President Blatter's resignation cannot be dragged out any longer. He must leave now, an interim independent leadership must be appointed to administer the process of the elections, in addition to the reforms that are being discussed prior to the elections.

– Prince Ali

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We faced the same questions last time around, we had agreed to give our power data to UK anti-doping and the CADF( Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation). The CADF didn't want The CADF, UK anti-doping had The CADF but I don't think they did anything with The CADF but we were willing to give The CADF to an independent body and we could do the same again.

– Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the area, you know there will always be contact but there was no push, he (Peralta) made a drama of it. In the end it's an injustice and we're leaving (the tournament) very hurt, it's not right that in the final minute there should be this injustice against us but we're leaving with our heads high.

– Costa Rica Roy Miller

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's very important to note that it's an international series ... so when Americans do (well) and beat the rest of the world it's great, to do it here in the heartland...it's pretty cool.

– Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Something broke. As soon as I let it up, something gave out, it sucks when it's completely out of our hands, when something fails.

– Juan Pablo Montoya

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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