Latest Rory McIlroy Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.

  Rory McIlroy

  Fun, Educational, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

  Rory McIlroy

  Regret, Past, Serious

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.

  Rory McIlroy

  War, School, Two

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

  Rory McIlroy

  School, Used, Enjoy

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• 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

• 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

• The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

  Rory McIlroy

  Family And Friends, Take Me Back, Flight

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

  Rory McIlroy

  Honesty, School, Eye

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• 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 very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

  Rory McIlroy

  Games, Play, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

  Rory McIlroy

  Age, World, Remember

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Player, Florida

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• 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

• I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Leader, Forgiving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

• 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

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• I think there came a time - probably when I was about 13 - when I started to struggle with an increasing volume of schoolwork and the demands from my golfing schedule and aspirations. I'm not sure if the decision to leave school was very clear in my mind then but I did know that in the juggling between the two, my energies were most definitely in the golfing direction.

  Rory McIlroy

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk