104 Quotes by Rory McIlroy

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.

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

You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.

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.

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.

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me,

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.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

I was more worried about what other people would think rather than, you know, me. But you have got to do what is right for yourself and what you feel comfortable with.