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I never used to be very emotional but I now take some pretty horrific medication for my condition and I think based on that, with a lot of other things associated with it, I can't stop now, i used to make putts and I never cried when I putted. I think when you get older you get more emotional. – David Graham	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm 28. I feel good. I don't feel old. I have hopefully many more years in front of me, i'm going to try to push my own limits and see how far I can go really with titles and with Rafa Nadal playing on this high level. – Rafa Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This has now been corrected and we wish both Bernard Tomic and JP Smith all the best in the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, this unfortunate error has been widely circulated on social media and there is some discussion as to how such a mistake could occur. – Tennis Australia	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't have an Olympics, so we are fortunate that the Olympic Committee allows us to come in and kind of show off our sport, in North America it is really hard to build up our skating clubs, it's hard to keep kids in the sport (when) they see gymnastics, ice skating and they kind of join those and ...stop roller skating. – Courtney Donovan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a rivalry. You hear about it. You come over here to Team USA and that's what they tell us. They got a lot of good players down there and it's kind of what it is, but we got good players they got good players and it's always heated games. We always play hard. – Tyler Pastornicky	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's extremely satisfying to have stretches where I played poorly and still came away with a win, not the best start, but certainly OK with the outcome. – Jordan Spieth	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I came here for a reason and we accomplished that reason and certainly have some momentum going into next week. – Jordan Spieth	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it's great for him to play, get the playing feels, keep the playing feels going, feels travel. He's played enough links-type golf courses. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel very confident about tomorrow, jordan just played magnificent today. I think it's going to be a fun day for us tomorrow. – Danny Lee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I just seem to get some lucky breaks here at the John Deere. – Jordan Spieth	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I made birdies a lot today, maybe nine birdies, so my putting is good today. – Pamela Wright at Indianwood	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Holes like the par-five fifth, going into that green with a five or six-iron compared to a three-wood is a massive advantage to the big hitters, particularly when the pin is at the front, the par-four ninth is also drivable to the big-hitters, 10 is drivable, 12 is drivable, 14 gets wider the further you hit it, and 18 is drivable too. Jordan not being one of the big hitters means it's going to put even more focus on his putting. – Ryder Cup	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Having said that golf isn't like a sport like tennis in so far as generally three of the four top players in the world are going to be in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, that's not the case in our sport because the guys in 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th position in the rankings can compete and all have the potential to win next week. That's something that's unique about golf. – Ryder Cup	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
One of the things that makes Rory special is he's not a Nick Faldo-kind of personality, obsessive with the game, an incredibly hard practicer, focused 24/7, that's not his dynamic, that's not what makes him tick as a golfer, he's much more creative, much more inspirational and that's what makes him so exciting as a player. What he does off the course gives him that energy, that freshness, to play that way. – Ryder Cup	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The odds are against Jordan next week, i wouldn't be backing him. – Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In hindsight Rory McIlroy would wish Rory McIlroy hadn't played that game of soccer but it could have happened to Rory McIlroy walking down the street, it wasn't a dirty tackle, the game wasn't played at a high tempo, Rory McIlroy just happened to be running and went over on Rory McIlroy ankle. – Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it's going to be a leaderboard dominated by big hitters, I feel that very strongly. – Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's the best I've hit it in a very long time. I had full control over all the clubs, i made some nice strides heading into the Open. I'll do some good work next week and be ready. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Any time you shoot four rounds under par in a major you’ve done well, but Tiger is just playing different golf. – Thomas Bjorn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This was a watershed moment in my life, winning the Open at Turnberry early in my career against the best player in the game, jack Nicklaus at Turnberry said,' Tom, I gave you my best shot but it was n’t good enough. Congratulations'. – Tom Watson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Phil Mickelson is one of the greatest champions this game has ever had, it's Phil Mickelson last Open championship and I ’m certainly appreciative of all Phil Mickelson has done for the game of golf. – Tom Watson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I stayed really patient, I kept hitting my lines and my birdies were pretty low-stress, i'm in a good spot. – Rookie Thomas	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I putted about as well today as I have the past couple months, ultimately this was a big day for me in my preparation for next week. – Jordan Spieth	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life if you want but having a little kickaround with your mates, I would have said 999 times out of 1,000 you are good, he got unlucky, it was just one of those situations that's caught him out. It was a freak accident but accidents happen. – Ryder Cup	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I never used to be very emotional but I now take some pretty horrific medication for my condition and I think based on that, with a lot of other things associated with it, I can't stop now, i used to make putts and I never cried when I putted. I think when you get older you get more emotional.

– David Graham

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm 28. I feel good. I don't feel old. I have hopefully many more years in front of me, i'm going to try to push my own limits and see how far I can go really with titles and with Rafa Nadal playing on this high level.

– Rafa Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This has now been corrected and we wish both Bernard Tomic and JP Smith all the best in the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, this unfortunate error has been widely circulated on social media and there is some discussion as to how such a mistake could occur.

– Tennis Australia

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We don't have an Olympics, so we are fortunate that the Olympic Committee allows us to come in and kind of show off our sport, in North America it is really hard to build up our skating clubs, it's hard to keep kids in the sport (when) they see gymnastics, ice skating and they kind of join those and ...stop roller skating.

– Courtney Donovan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a rivalry. You hear about it. You come over here to Team USA and that's what they tell us. They got a lot of good players down there and it's kind of what it is, but we got good players they got good players and it's always heated games. We always play hard.

– Tyler Pastornicky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's extremely satisfying to have stretches where I played poorly and still came away with a win, not the best start, but certainly OK with the outcome.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I came here for a reason and we accomplished that reason and certainly have some momentum going into next week.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think it's great for him to play, get the playing feels, keep the playing feels going, feels travel. He's played enough links-type golf courses.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel very confident about tomorrow, jordan just played magnificent today. I think it's going to be a fun day for us tomorrow.

– Danny Lee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I just seem to get some lucky breaks here at the John Deere.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I made birdies a lot today, maybe nine birdies, so my putting is good today.

– Pamela Wright at Indianwood

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Holes like the par-five fifth, going into that green with a five or six-iron compared to a three-wood is a massive advantage to the big hitters, particularly when the pin is at the front, the par-four ninth is also drivable to the big-hitters, 10 is drivable, 12 is drivable, 14 gets wider the further you hit it, and 18 is drivable too. Jordan not being one of the big hitters means it's going to put even more focus on his putting.

– Ryder Cup

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Having said that golf isn't like a sport like tennis in so far as generally three of the four top players in the world are going to be in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, that's not the case in our sport because the guys in 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th position in the rankings can compete and all have the potential to win next week. That's something that's unique about golf.

– Ryder Cup

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One of the things that makes Rory special is he's not a Nick Faldo-kind of personality, obsessive with the game, an incredibly hard practicer, focused 24/7, that's not his dynamic, that's not what makes him tick as a golfer, he's much more creative, much more inspirational and that's what makes him so exciting as a player. What he does off the course gives him that energy, that freshness, to play that way.

– Ryder Cup

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The odds are against Jordan next week, i wouldn't be backing him.

– Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In hindsight Rory McIlroy would wish Rory McIlroy hadn't played that game of soccer but it could have happened to Rory McIlroy walking down the street, it wasn't a dirty tackle, the game wasn't played at a high tempo, Rory McIlroy just happened to be running and went over on Rory McIlroy ankle.

– Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think it's going to be a leaderboard dominated by big hitters, I feel that very strongly.

– Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's the best I've hit it in a very long time. I had full control over all the clubs, i made some nice strides heading into the Open. I'll do some good work next week and be ready.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Any time you shoot four rounds under par in a major you’ve done well, but Tiger is just playing different golf.

– Thomas Bjorn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This was a watershed moment in my life, winning the Open at Turnberry early in my career against the best player in the game, jack Nicklaus at Turnberry said,' Tom, I gave you my best shot but it was n’t good enough. Congratulations'.

– Tom Watson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Phil Mickelson is one of the greatest champions this game has ever had, it's Phil Mickelson last Open championship and I ’m certainly appreciative of all Phil Mickelson has done for the game of golf.

– Tom Watson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I stayed really patient, I kept hitting my lines and my birdies were pretty low-stress, i'm in a good spot.

– Rookie Thomas

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I putted about as well today as I have the past couple months, ultimately this was a big day for me in my preparation for next week.

– Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life if you want but having a little kickaround with your mates, I would have said 999 times out of 1,000 you are good, he got unlucky, it was just one of those situations that's caught him out. It was a freak accident but accidents happen.

– Ryder Cup

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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