Rory McIlroy Quotes

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life.

I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.

It's a great feeling to earn a place in the Olympics.

I just want to enjoy football and show the best I can do.

When I am on the track, I get the greatest joy by running the fastest.

I've won an Olympic title and an U-20 World Cup, but it'd be really special to round things off with a Copa title with the seniors.

Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.

Winning the Diamond League with a personal record, it's like icing on the cake.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

I always thought if you run a Marathon in less than 4 hours, there is a tick of athletic accomplishment in that. Anything over that is just an old guy with a hard head who isn't going to stop until he's done.

I was an All-American at three different weight classes in college. Started off at 149, then 157, and then finished up my senior year at 165.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.

As a thrill in my career, the Olympics rank right up there with my two NCAA championships at Duke.

I want to be looked at as one of the greatest sprinters of all-time.

When I fall behind, my swing changes.

I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.