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As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.

Rory McIlroy

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Rory McIlroy
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: May 4
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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.
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My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
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As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.
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My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.
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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.
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I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.
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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.
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Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.
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I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.
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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.
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Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.
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I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.
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The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.
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You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.
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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.
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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.
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How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.
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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.
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I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.
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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.
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