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. Rory McIlroy More Quotes by Rory McIlroy More Quotes From Rory McIlroy I didn't quite do it, a couple of loose shots down the stretch but I was chasing it, trying to make birdies, and sometimes you're going to make mistakes when you do that. Rory McIlroy sports Guys, can you turn your phones down. Rory McIlroy sports It's awesome. I'm really grateful, i really felt the love out there. Celebrate another decade of my life and I get to do it on one of my favorite golf courses in the world, it's pretty cool. Rory McIlroy sports I've never done that for a PGA before and I've done pretty well at them, so just treating it like any other event, i would assume Bethpage is going to feel like a normal PGA Tour set-up. You're not really going to have to do anything different. Rory McIlroy sports I just need to put up a better fight than I did, i didn't have much of a game that day. Rory McIlroy sports Sawgrass and I didn't have the greatest relationship starting off, it's a massive win on a course( where) I've had mixed results. I had to show a lot of character out there. Any time I looked at the leaderboard I was pleasantly surprised I hadn't fallen two or three shots behind. Rory McIlroy sports I'm just really proud of myself the way I played the last few holes. Rory McIlroy sports I just need to keep seeing red numbers, i don't need a win. I'm not putting Rory McIlroy under pressure. Winning is a byproduct of doing all the things that I'm doing well. Rory McIlroy sports It was just a perfect yardage to go ahead and be aggressive with. Rory McIlroy sports My Sundays haven't been what I would have liked but I'm putting myself in that position, good golf is good golf. Rory McIlroy sports I can only control me, and I've played well. I've done what I wanted to do and needed to do. Rory McIlroy sports Some weeks a guy just plays better than Dustin Johnson and that's exactly what happened this week, he was very impressive all-round this week and deserved to win. Rory McIlroy sports It's fun, i'm glad you don't have to do it every week but while we're here might as well make the most of it. Rory McIlroy sports Only shooting one-under yesterday on the south course, I knew I needed to go out and shoot something at least in the mid 60s to just make the cut, let alone get back in the golf tournament, so it was nice to eagle the first hole we played and it's always a bonus when you can hole a wedge shot as well. All in all a good round of golf and at least have a shot going into the weekend. Rory McIlroy sports I'm committed to the journey of getting to a point where that's not a conversation anymore, so have just got to keep putting Rory McIlroy in those positions, i'm obviously playing good enough golf to get Rory McIlroy there( in contention). Rory McIlroy sports Yes, you're going to miss some events you might want to play, it's all about pacing yourself. Rory McIlroy sports I think as you get older, it's natural instinct to become a little more careful, you take way more risks when you're a teenager... I just need to get back to playing the game like I was a teenager. Not be careful, not try to be too perfect. Not try to control things that you can't control. Just go out and play your game. Rory McIlroy sports They have probably a couple of guys, but one in particular that they try to emulate who's back out here playing, and he's become a friend of theirs, a lot of these guys have gotten to know Tiger and being able to say, 'OK, this is what he does, we mightn't be able to achieve everything that he has, but we can at least try'. Rory McIlroy sports I sort of learned to play the course a little bit better and reined myself in on some tee shots, and that's what's brought me a little bit of success here, once I started to be a little more conservative, I started to sort of top-10 it and give myself half a chance. Rory McIlroy sports I'm just not that comfortable with anything right now, i'm trying really hard to hit Golf Channel in the fairway and then trying really hard to get my irons on line. Golf Channel's all just a little bit of a struggle. Rory McIlroy sports