Rory McIlroy Quotes About Golf

Quotes about: Golf

• You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Believe In Yourself, Leaving

• Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

  Rory McIlroy

  Inspiration, Golf, Role Models

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.

  Rory McIlroy

  Nice, Golf, Years

• It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Events

  "McIlroy rallies to win BMW PGA Championship". www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2014.

• The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Careers, Achievement

• I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Years, Stronger

• I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Years, I've Learned

• Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Thinking, Race

• The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Games, Joy

• I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Second Chance, Way

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Games

  "CNN exclusive with Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy". "Living Golf" with Shane O'Donoghue, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. June 7, 2012.

• Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Teaching, Golf

• I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

  Rory McIlroy

  Couple, Golf, Homework

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

  Rory McIlroy

  Athlete, Golf, Train Hard

• Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Fans

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Fun, Kids

• As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Play, Long

• I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Years

• I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Roots, Unions

• I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Player

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