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It's the one that should set up the best for me just with my ball flight and being comfortable off the tee here, especially being able to turn the ball over from right to left and all that, if I can play the way I know I can around here and just have a good week on the greens, then there's no reason why I shouldn't have a good chance. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Just trying to keep my game where it is and do some quality work, not overdo it, just do the right amount so that when I got here yesterday for the first time, again, I was ready to play and just needed to go see the golf course. Wasn't working on anything in my game, my swing. Wasn't thinking about technique at all. Just all about hitting the shots I need to and thinking about how to manage my game and get it around here for the next four days. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I did have posters of him on my wall and I did idolize him, really, i think if you ask a lot of golfers that are my generation, he was the benchmark. He was the inspiration for us to go out and try to be the best that we could be. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I just really felt like spending a couple of weeks away from this, I guess. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Be stubborn. Focus on what you're doing and not anyone around you, you could see it just by looking at him in the eyes. If looks could kill you, he would literally kill you. It's not because he's not a good guy, he was just so focused and determined to play well. And he obviously gets it. And that's what I'm trying to do. – Patrick Reed	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There seems like a bit more this time. This one is a serious change, they're learning how to win. They feel like,' This is my time and I want to kick( butt). – Ernie Els	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Jordan Spieth was always my hero growing up and watching Jordan Spieth, back then we had antennas and a little turn-knob TV. We only had four or five channels back home. The only time I could get to watch Jordan Spieth was when Jordan Spieth played major championships. And the majority of time Jordan Spieth was playing in those tournaments when Jordan Spieth was in Jordan Spieth peak and Jordan Spieth was dominating. – Jason Day	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I wanted to be like that, yes. – Jason Day	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Tiger Woods was my hero growing up and still remains the man to me, when I would watch Tiger Woods on TV in Japan, I can remember thinking that Tiger Woods was so good and so cool and Tiger Woods swing was so pure. I vividly remember Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Opens at Pebble Beach and Torrey Pines. I remember trying to swing like Tiger Woods, but Tiger Woods swing was so good that I had no chance. – Hideki Matsuyama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Competing is still the same, i'm trying to beat everybody out there. That hasn't changed. I prepare to win and expect to go and do that. The only difference is that I won the Masters when Jordan Spieth was still in diapers. That's the difference is that guys are now younger, a whole other generation of kids coming out. – Tiger Woods	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's been a terrific floor for us, it was heaven, it was really divine. – Mike Krzyzewski	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
All of them are great. The one you're in this moment with is always the most current, you can feel it the best, i haven't loved a team any more than I've loved this team. ... They've been a joy. They've been an incredible joy. When you're already happy, and you get happier, it's pretty damn good. It's pretty good. – Mike Krzyzewski	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Whenever you mention Coach Only Wooden, Only Wooden's separate from everybody. – Mike Krzyzewski	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's just progression, i felt like I had to get my game into a spot where I felt I could compete to win a golf tournament, and it's finally there. – Tiger Woods	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's been a process. – Tiger Woods	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We don't back down from much. There's something to be said for keeping your composure this time of year, if you have to take a punch early in the game like Stu-ee did to get a power-play goal, those are the things that factor into wins. – Blake Wheeler	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I could tell that we were ramped up, right from the start. You need to play the game with emotion, but you have to make sure that you're controlling it, too. – Mike Yeo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It starts with Pav in net making some unbelievable saves, there seemed to be a couple times we were circling the wagons in our own end. On special teams he was able to stop the play, kill the play, and we were able to catch our breath, get a little bit of that momentum back. – Blake Wheeler and Drew Stafford	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Sometimes I think this team's better in a must-win situation, maybe it's good for us to get back on the road. – Thomas Vanek	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's tough, this is the tournament that got me into golf. And being No. 1 has always been a lifelong goal of mine. Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat. – Jason Day	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Not with the old '1' on the head, i've never see another guy have that. – Jason Day	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Any more than two hours is a complete waste of time. I hate sitting in a car for more than two hours max, two hours 15 (minutes). – Ian Poulter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
No matter how quick you go, two hours, 15 is enough. Two hours and 20 and my boredom threshold kicks in. – Ian Poulter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's hard, but it's also a great thing, there's two sides to me. I'm a competitor and a sports person, and I'm also the recipient of two transplants, and I know what that involves. So when you put them together, it does make a little bit of spaghetti in my mind sometimes you know. – Peter Compton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

It's the one that should set up the best for me just with my ball flight and being comfortable off the tee here, especially being able to turn the ball over from right to left and all that, if I can play the way I know I can around here and just have a good week on the greens, then there's no reason why I shouldn't have a good chance.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Just trying to keep my game where it is and do some quality work, not overdo it, just do the right amount so that when I got here yesterday for the first time, again, I was ready to play and just needed to go see the golf course. Wasn't working on anything in my game, my swing. Wasn't thinking about technique at all. Just all about hitting the shots I need to and thinking about how to manage my game and get it around here for the next four days.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I did have posters of him on my wall and I did idolize him, really, i think if you ask a lot of golfers that are my generation, he was the benchmark. He was the inspiration for us to go out and try to be the best that we could be.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I just really felt like spending a couple of weeks away from this, I guess.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Be stubborn. Focus on what you're doing and not anyone around you, you could see it just by looking at him in the eyes. If looks could kill you, he would literally kill you. It's not because he's not a good guy, he was just so focused and determined to play well. And he obviously gets it. And that's what I'm trying to do.

– Patrick Reed

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There seems like a bit more this time. This one is a serious change, they're learning how to win. They feel like,' This is my time and I want to kick( butt).

– Ernie Els

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Jordan Spieth was always my hero growing up and watching Jordan Spieth, back then we had antennas and a little turn-knob TV. We only had four or five channels back home. The only time I could get to watch Jordan Spieth was when Jordan Spieth played major championships. And the majority of time Jordan Spieth was playing in those tournaments when Jordan Spieth was in Jordan Spieth peak and Jordan Spieth was dominating.

– Jason Day

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I wanted to be like that, yes.

– Jason Day

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Tiger Woods was my hero growing up and still remains the man to me, when I would watch Tiger Woods on TV in Japan, I can remember thinking that Tiger Woods was so good and so cool and Tiger Woods swing was so pure. I vividly remember Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Opens at Pebble Beach and Torrey Pines. I remember trying to swing like Tiger Woods, but Tiger Woods swing was so good that I had no chance.

– Hideki Matsuyama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Competing is still the same, i'm trying to beat everybody out there. That hasn't changed. I prepare to win and expect to go and do that. The only difference is that I won the Masters when Jordan Spieth was still in diapers. That's the difference is that guys are now younger, a whole other generation of kids coming out.

– Tiger Woods

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's been a terrific floor for us, it was heaven, it was really divine.

– Mike Krzyzewski

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All of them are great. The one you're in this moment with is always the most current, you can feel it the best, i haven't loved a team any more than I've loved this team. ... They've been a joy. They've been an incredible joy. When you're already happy, and you get happier, it's pretty damn good. It's pretty good.

– Mike Krzyzewski

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Whenever you mention Coach Only Wooden, Only Wooden's separate from everybody.

– Mike Krzyzewski

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's just progression, i felt like I had to get my game into a spot where I felt I could compete to win a golf tournament, and it's finally there.

– Tiger Woods

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's been a process.

– Tiger Woods

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We don't back down from much. There's something to be said for keeping your composure this time of year, if you have to take a punch early in the game like Stu-ee did to get a power-play goal, those are the things that factor into wins.

– Blake Wheeler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I could tell that we were ramped up, right from the start. You need to play the game with emotion, but you have to make sure that you're controlling it, too.

– Mike Yeo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It starts with Pav in net making some unbelievable saves, there seemed to be a couple times we were circling the wagons in our own end. On special teams he was able to stop the play, kill the play, and we were able to catch our breath, get a little bit of that momentum back.

– Blake Wheeler and Drew Stafford

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sometimes I think this team's better in a must-win situation, maybe it's good for us to get back on the road.

– Thomas Vanek

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's tough, this is the tournament that got me into golf. And being No. 1 has always been a lifelong goal of mine. Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.

– Jason Day

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Not with the old '1' on the head, i've never see another guy have that.

– Jason Day

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Any more than two hours is a complete waste of time. I hate sitting in a car for more than two hours max, two hours 15 (minutes).

– Ian Poulter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

No matter how quick you go, two hours, 15 is enough. Two hours and 20 and my boredom threshold kicks in.

– Ian Poulter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's hard, but it's also a great thing, there's two sides to me. I'm a competitor and a sports person, and I'm also the recipient of two transplants, and I know what that involves. So when you put them together, it does make a little bit of spaghetti in my mind sometimes you know.

– Peter Compton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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