source: - "Rory McIlroy: The year I choked and cried was also the year I grew up". Interview with Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

Topics: Home, Mean, Years, Northern Ireland

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

Topics: Failure, Balance, Wells

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.

Topics: Sports, Fun, Kids, Wii

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

Topics: Morning, Light, Play, Carbs, Porridge

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.

source: - "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

Topics: Kids, Sunday, Night, Sunday Night, Preview

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.

Topics: Sports, People, Lucky

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.

Topics: Used, Soreness, Enjoy

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.

source: - "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

Topics: Dad, Swings, Two

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.

source: - Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Topics: War, School, Two, World War Two

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.

source: - Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Topics: Fun, Educational, Thinking, Ulster, Banter

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

source: - Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Topics: School, Used, Enjoy, School Bus

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.

source: - Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Topics: Honesty, School, Eye, Clowning

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.

source: - Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Topics: Couple, Golf, Homework

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.

Topics: Golf, Thinking, Race, Prize Money, Money Matters

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

Topics: America, People, Support

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.

Topics: Nice, Golf, Years, Really Nice

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.

Topics: Golf, Careers, Achievement, Claret, Three Legs

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.

Topics: Golf, Winning, Player, Good Golf, Golf Tournaments

I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.

Topics: Careers, Feelings, Three, Feeling Pretty, Completing

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.

Topics: Sports, Golf, Years, Sports Fan

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.

source: - "Surprises: A pair of long shots do well, Harrington with belly putter and McIlroy tied on top". www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.

Topics: Couple, Swings, Should Have

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.

source: - "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

Topics: Men, Long, People, Northern Ireland

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.

Topics: Connections, Way, Facts

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

Topics: Golf, Years, Stronger

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.

Topics: Thinking, People, Appreciate

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.

Topics: Golf, Roots, Unions

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