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There are so many great athletes out there and we have to uplift and better promote them all. – Veronica Campbell-Brown	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Murray has always had the game to do well at the French and he's made a couple of semis and right now is playing with the most confidence I've ever seen him on clay, and Nishikori beat Novak at the U.S. Open in extreme heat, he did an unbelievable job and it's conceivable he could do that again. – Rafa Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was so emotional when I got my card in Spain and it still dries my throat now just thinking about it, after 10 years of trying you start doubting yourself and you think of giving up. I nearly gave up twice, the last time about a month before I got my card. – Matt Ford	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
From a confidence point of view it gives you so much just to be out here performing with good players, i don't have any aspirations to be number one in the world like Rory but if I can keep my card, stay on the tour and get into the top 50, those things are certainly achievable. – Matt Ford	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My sponsor has been very good. CK Group have been very supportive and with those sort of people behind me... – Matt Ford	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All Michelin would do is make a rock-hard tyre that you could put on in January and take off in December because they don't want to be in a position where they can be criticized. – Formula One commercial supremo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The issues we deal with are usually from someone who may be wanting to make a name for themselves and tries to harass or in some way antagonize an outlaw motorcycle gang member. – Town Marshal David Smith	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think cooler heads will prevail, at least for a while, but I expect that there will be more problems down the road, honor has been offended. Blood has been shed. – James Quinn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some you might want to hang out with, some maybe not. – Charlie St. Clair	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want to keep it going as long as I can. I don't want to think fear or everything else can be an obstacle and interrupt this streak. – Novak Djokovic	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think this would be a better surface for Simona Halep to play Serena, i think that it( the clay) defuses Serena's power. I think( Sharapova) likes that few extra seconds that clay allows her to set up her shots. – Chris Evert	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I felt myself getting a bit angry out there which I haven't been doing the last few weeks, i just need to stay in control of my emotions because I feel like... if I'm a little tired or a little fatigued mentally I'll start to be hard on myself. – Rory McIlroy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I had expected more solidarity from international federations, specifically from summer Olympics federations, because I spoke out in the favor of the sport, i did not attack Bach or the IOC. But it is up to the federations to decide what they consider the best for their situation and their sports community. – President Marius Vizer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I admire and respect Robert Kraft, as you know, we've had plenty of discussions over the last couple of weeks. And this was his initiative and something he wanted to do. I certainly admire the step he took. – Roger Goodell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The decision that Robert Kraft made was Robert Kraft decision. – Commissioner Roger Goodell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we continue along this track, it will be the capacity of FIFA to govern football which will be at stake, we need a strong governance. If we want to prevent football by being managed only by private interest, and if we want to correct the current imbalances, we need FIFA and we need a strong one. – Jerome Champagne	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are bunkers everywhere and strategy off the tee is very important, you need to drive the ball well this week. You can't play this course from the bunkers so that means being conservative in some areas and in other areas flying a bunker and accepting being in the rough. – British Open	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My yardage books have always been produced with the aim of helping all players narrow down the exact length they want to hit a shot but this new greens contours book takes it to another level, for the past five years in America my business colleague Mark Long has produced both types of books for players on the U.S. Tour and Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell have persuaded me to see the potential demand of doing them for England Europe. – Nick Faldo in the 1990s	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Having caddied for many top players in the world like Nick Faldo in the 1990s when Nick Faldo in the 1990s was world number one and Colin Montgomerie later on, I appreciate how fine the line is between being a good player and a truly great one, my yardage books have always been produced with the aim of helping all players narrow down the exact length they want to hit a shot but this new greens contours book takes it to another level. – Graeme Heinrich	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
On Monday Justin Rose was playing a practice round at Wentworth, i gave Justin Rose Justin Rose contour book and Justin Rose told me Justin Rose is now going to be much happier putting here. – Graeme Heinrich	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That’s cool man, I’m very happy to be a star here. Everybody loves me here and it feels good to give a performance to the crowd. – David Oliver	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Working on the principle I've never pulled out of an event injured I believe I'll make it tomorrow, i was doing a gym exercise and it was a little bit unstable. I hit shots after the gym yesterday and after I went to bed last night it stiffened during the night and I struggled to sleep with it. – England Padraig Harrington	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We just want a young man with a great heart and a great mind. – The Timberwolves	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This will be an amazing opportunity for some of our local players to be involved in such a unique event, there is a real appetite for rugby in the United States at the moment, so I am sure that the game will be well supported. – Crusaders Chief Executive Hamish Riach	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

There are so many great athletes out there and we have to uplift and better promote them all.

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Murray has always had the game to do well at the French and he's made a couple of semis and right now is playing with the most confidence I've ever seen him on clay, and Nishikori beat Novak at the U.S. Open in extreme heat, he did an unbelievable job and it's conceivable he could do that again.

– Rafa Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I was so emotional when I got my card in Spain and it still dries my throat now just thinking about it, after 10 years of trying you start doubting yourself and you think of giving up. I nearly gave up twice, the last time about a month before I got my card.

– Matt Ford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

From a confidence point of view it gives you so much just to be out here performing with good players, i don't have any aspirations to be number one in the world like Rory but if I can keep my card, stay on the tour and get into the top 50, those things are certainly achievable.

– Matt Ford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My sponsor has been very good. CK Group have been very supportive and with those sort of people behind me...

– Matt Ford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All Michelin would do is make a rock-hard tyre that you could put on in January and take off in December because they don't want to be in a position where they can be criticized.

– Formula One commercial supremo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The issues we deal with are usually from someone who may be wanting to make a name for themselves and tries to harass or in some way antagonize an outlaw motorcycle gang member.

– Town Marshal David Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think cooler heads will prevail, at least for a while, but I expect that there will be more problems down the road, honor has been offended. Blood has been shed.

– James Quinn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some you might want to hang out with, some maybe not.

– Charlie St. Clair

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I want to keep it going as long as I can. I don't want to think fear or everything else can be an obstacle and interrupt this streak.

– Novak Djokovic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think this would be a better surface for Simona Halep to play Serena, i think that it( the clay) defuses Serena's power. I think( Sharapova) likes that few extra seconds that clay allows her to set up her shots.

– Chris Evert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I felt myself getting a bit angry out there which I haven't been doing the last few weeks, i just need to stay in control of my emotions because I feel like... if I'm a little tired or a little fatigued mentally I'll start to be hard on myself.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I had expected more solidarity from international federations, specifically from summer Olympics federations, because I spoke out in the favor of the sport, i did not attack Bach or the IOC. But it is up to the federations to decide what they consider the best for their situation and their sports community.

– President Marius Vizer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I admire and respect Robert Kraft, as you know, we've had plenty of discussions over the last couple of weeks. And this was his initiative and something he wanted to do. I certainly admire the step he took.

– Roger Goodell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The decision that Robert Kraft made was Robert Kraft decision.

– Commissioner Roger Goodell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we continue along this track, it will be the capacity of FIFA to govern football which will be at stake, we need a strong governance. If we want to prevent football by being managed only by private interest, and if we want to correct the current imbalances, we need FIFA and we need a strong one.

– Jerome Champagne

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are bunkers everywhere and strategy off the tee is very important, you need to drive the ball well this week. You can't play this course from the bunkers so that means being conservative in some areas and in other areas flying a bunker and accepting being in the rough.

– British Open

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My yardage books have always been produced with the aim of helping all players narrow down the exact length they want to hit a shot but this new greens contours book takes it to another level, for the past five years in America my business colleague Mark Long has produced both types of books for players on the U.S. Tour and Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell have persuaded me to see the potential demand of doing them for England Europe.

– Nick Faldo in the 1990s

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Having caddied for many top players in the world like Nick Faldo in the 1990s when Nick Faldo in the 1990s was world number one and Colin Montgomerie later on, I appreciate how fine the line is between being a good player and a truly great one, my yardage books have always been produced with the aim of helping all players narrow down the exact length they want to hit a shot but this new greens contours book takes it to another level.

– Graeme Heinrich

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

On Monday Justin Rose was playing a practice round at Wentworth, i gave Justin Rose Justin Rose contour book and Justin Rose told me Justin Rose is now going to be much happier putting here.

– Graeme Heinrich

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That’s cool man, I’m very happy to be a star here. Everybody loves me here and it feels good to give a performance to the crowd.

– David Oliver

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Working on the principle I've never pulled out of an event injured I believe I'll make it tomorrow, i was doing a gym exercise and it was a little bit unstable. I hit shots after the gym yesterday and after I went to bed last night it stiffened during the night and I struggled to sleep with it.

– England Padraig Harrington

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We just want a young man with a great heart and a great mind.

– The Timberwolves

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This will be an amazing opportunity for some of our local players to be involved in such a unique event, there is a real appetite for rugby in the United States at the moment, so I am sure that the game will be well supported.

– Crusaders Chief Executive Hamish Riach

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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