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Yes. Because it's what I've always wanted to do. I would be wasting my time if I was out there practicing as much as I do and putting as much into it if I didn't want to be in this position, and wasting the people's time around me, as well, that helped me get to this point, of course I want to be that guy. I said it last year, golf is waiting for someone like that to step forward, put their hand up and win the big tournaments. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Yeah, this is the position I want to be in and I want to be in it as long as I can. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel like I've got a nice schedule going into Augusta. I'm not playing too much, but I'm playing just enough that I should be as sharp as possible going in there. – Rory McIlroy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There will be no compensation. I mean they have seven years to reorganize soccer around the world for this World Cup. – Jerome Valcke	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
No, I was very happy. It was the way we must play against Barcelona, we played two different games; the first half and the second half. Before the first goal it was a very normal game. – Manuel Pellegrini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is with an element of sadness but a lot of pride that I have decided to retire from the Socceroos, playing for my country in the sport I love has been an amazing experience and something I have cherished but never taken for granted. – Veteran Australia midfielder Mark Bresciano	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A lot of the guys that are trying to jump into the NBA are immature and don’t understand the game and it’s having a negative effect on the college game and on the pro game, maybe they should do something about that such as raising the age to 21. Something should be done about the one-and-done phenomenon. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I should call a meeting by March with judicial officials and big companies such as Petrobras, the BNDES and other big employers in Rio so we can have a holiday period during the Olympics, i don't want people to leave the city, we want them to stay, but it is clear that mobility will be affected during the Olympics. – Mayor Eduardo Paes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel like when I'm playing guitar and I'm having to think about the chords or if I'm attempting to sing, by myself of course, I think it puts my brain in a place where I can't think about anything else, it kind of puts you in that zone where I have to turn the brain off for a little bit, so I hope it helps. – Russell Henley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've played pretty well here so far. Hopefully I can have another good week here. The one thing I've always noticed, what changes for me, or what I am more aware of, is my attitude, i'm a little bit tougher and I'm a little bit easier on myself on this course. Because it's so hard, I know that if I can just hang around and keep making pars, maybe grab a birdie; if I just hang around the best I can, I feel like that's what you have to do. – Russell Henley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They were nice enough to let me play two songs with them that we had planned out Saturday after the round at Riviera and it was a blast, then they actually called me up during the encore for the last song and told me the chords when I was on stage and turned my guitar back on, so that was really fun, getting a little bit of a bonus song there. So it is something I'll always remember. – Russell Henley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am very satisfied. – President Thomas Bach	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
With this new injury, time has come for me to think about the future, i can now calmly decide to stop my career, I lived great moments and I was able to bounce back after hard times. – Marion Rolland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
-- including UEFA, whose president Michel Platini has continually backed a winter World Cup. – Task Force	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some people have concerns, but whatever decision you're going to take will have some questions about it, but The European giants need to look at the overall benefit for everybody. – Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim AlKhalifa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some people have concerns, but whatever decision you're going to take will have some questions about it, but... we need to look at the overall benefit of everybody. – Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term. – Novak Djokovic	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
From my end, it'll be, he'll show up like everybody else, he'll be in his hitting group and his fielding group, stretching, all that stuff, conditioning side of it. It'll be no different from our end. – General Manager	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When I go to spring training, I will do everything I can to be the best player and teammate possible, earn a spot on the Yankees and help us win. – Alex Rodriguez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I’ve come here with a different motivation because I’ve had a spell that wasn’t good for me because for the last seven months I’ve been fairly inactive and had complications, i’m closer to the level I want to reach which is why I feel I’m taking little steps forward and that’s good. Recovery is like a ladder which you don’t climb running but rather step by step. – Rafael Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Physically I’m good. In Rio de Janeiro, I don’t think I had a bad week. I won good matches and lost one which I shouldn’t have lost, although it’s also true that the timetable of the previous match was strange. – Rafael Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
So far, I've been fortunate but we all know in this sport that it can be short-lived, if something happens to the back or whatever it may be, it's a tricky slope. I'm just thankful for the very healthy years that I've had and I do the best to get as many more as I can. – American Furyk	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I sold a lot of shoes, i was pretty good at it. – James Hahn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'm sitting there in my room, i've got to borrow money to pay for my caddie fee. It was a little embarrassing. I was going to borrow money from my parents to get a flight home. And I'm sitting there on the computer going on Craigslist and I start looking for jobs. It kind of hit me like,' Hey, you have an opportunity to do something with your life.' And I was just wasting it, hanging out with friends, partying on the weekends. I wasn't putting in the time. – James Hahn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Yes. Because it's what I've always wanted to do. I would be wasting my time if I was out there practicing as much as I do and putting as much into it if I didn't want to be in this position, and wasting the people's time around me, as well, that helped me get to this point, of course I want to be that guy. I said it last year, golf is waiting for someone like that to step forward, put their hand up and win the big tournaments.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Yeah, this is the position I want to be in and I want to be in it as long as I can.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel like I've got a nice schedule going into Augusta. I'm not playing too much, but I'm playing just enough that I should be as sharp as possible going in there.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There will be no compensation. I mean they have seven years to reorganize soccer around the world for this World Cup.

– Jerome Valcke

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No, I was very happy. It was the way we must play against Barcelona, we played two different games; the first half and the second half. Before the first goal it was a very normal game.

– Manuel Pellegrini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is with an element of sadness but a lot of pride that I have decided to retire from the Socceroos, playing for my country in the sport I love has been an amazing experience and something I have cherished but never taken for granted.

– Veteran Australia midfielder Mark Bresciano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A lot of the guys that are trying to jump into the NBA are immature and don’t understand the game and it’s having a negative effect on the college game and on the pro game, maybe they should do something about that such as raising the age to 21. Something should be done about the one-and-done phenomenon.

– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I should call a meeting by March with judicial officials and big companies such as Petrobras, the BNDES and other big employers in Rio so we can have a holiday period during the Olympics, i don't want people to leave the city, we want them to stay, but it is clear that mobility will be affected during the Olympics.

– Mayor Eduardo Paes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel like when I'm playing guitar and I'm having to think about the chords or if I'm attempting to sing, by myself of course, I think it puts my brain in a place where I can't think about anything else, it kind of puts you in that zone where I have to turn the brain off for a little bit, so I hope it helps.

– Russell Henley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I've played pretty well here so far. Hopefully I can have another good week here. The one thing I've always noticed, what changes for me, or what I am more aware of, is my attitude, i'm a little bit tougher and I'm a little bit easier on myself on this course. Because it's so hard, I know that if I can just hang around and keep making pars, maybe grab a birdie; if I just hang around the best I can, I feel like that's what you have to do.

– Russell Henley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They were nice enough to let me play two songs with them that we had planned out Saturday after the round at Riviera and it was a blast, then they actually called me up during the encore for the last song and told me the chords when I was on stage and turned my guitar back on, so that was really fun, getting a little bit of a bonus song there. So it is something I'll always remember.

– Russell Henley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am very satisfied.

– President Thomas Bach

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With this new injury, time has come for me to think about the future, i can now calmly decide to stop my career, I lived great moments and I was able to bounce back after hard times.

– Marion Rolland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

-- including UEFA, whose president Michel Platini has continually backed a winter World Cup.

– Task Force

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some people have concerns, but whatever decision you're going to take will have some questions about it, but The European giants need to look at the overall benefit for everybody.

– Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim AlKhalifa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some people have concerns, but whatever decision you're going to take will have some questions about it, but... we need to look at the overall benefit of everybody.

– Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

– Novak Djokovic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

From my end, it'll be, he'll show up like everybody else, he'll be in his hitting group and his fielding group, stretching, all that stuff, conditioning side of it. It'll be no different from our end.

– General Manager

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When I go to spring training, I will do everything I can to be the best player and teammate possible, earn a spot on the Yankees and help us win.

– Alex Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I’ve come here with a different motivation because I’ve had a spell that wasn’t good for me because for the last seven months I’ve been fairly inactive and had complications, i’m closer to the level I want to reach which is why I feel I’m taking little steps forward and that’s good. Recovery is like a ladder which you don’t climb running but rather step by step.

– Rafael Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Physically I’m good. In Rio de Janeiro, I don’t think I had a bad week. I won good matches and lost one which I shouldn’t have lost, although it’s also true that the timetable of the previous match was strange.

– Rafael Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

So far, I've been fortunate but we all know in this sport that it can be short-lived, if something happens to the back or whatever it may be, it's a tricky slope. I'm just thankful for the very healthy years that I've had and I do the best to get as many more as I can.

– American Furyk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I sold a lot of shoes, i was pretty good at it.

– James Hahn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm sitting there in my room, i've got to borrow money to pay for my caddie fee. It was a little embarrassing. I was going to borrow money from my parents to get a flight home. And I'm sitting there on the computer going on Craigslist and I start looking for jobs. It kind of hit me like,' Hey, you have an opportunity to do something with your life.' And I was just wasting it, hanging out with friends, partying on the weekends. I wasn't putting in the time.

– James Hahn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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