Colin Montgomerie Quotations

I was pretty confident I had done nothing wrong but called the rules official and he told me it was OK,

I said my next victory would be the most important of my career and it is. A heart-rate monitor at the last putt would have recorded it much faster than usual.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

We are watching here a unique golfer on a unique golf course.

I used to say two. I'm getting older.

I used to say I'm here to win. Now I say I'd like to win. But I have to start winning.

I've never really enjoyed the wind in the past but I had looked forward to coming back and playing St Andrews after the positive British Open I had.

It was tough to start five behind, ... I said to myself if I could get two back in the first five, I could do this. I got two back after six, and seven was a dramatic change.

A three-three finish was great because nothing was happening much before,

It was getting very, very dark out there and it made that putt extremely difficult,

Then I wasn't concentrating on what I was doing and missed the putt.

The field is bunched. I still say 4 or 5 under could win,

I know the place very well, and I'm playing well. It's just a matter of keeping going.

I'm relaxed, my back is better than it's ever been and I have Alastair (MacLean) back on the bag. I am happy, actually, and it does help. I'm happier than I've ever been, on and off the course.

I'm very hurt and very surprised (by Evans' comments) but I'm very glad I was able to go out and prove to myself and everyone else that I can still do this, and do what I do best.

Can he achieve the impossible? He's on his way.

If I hadn't been picked I would not be here now, ... It was crucial for my career. It was going in the opposite direction and he gave me the opportunity.

I came here playing well, I was second in Singapore last week and I've continued to do so. If I hit the fairways and I hit the greens then all I have to do is hole four or five putts.

He played the best course today in this weather.

You come here with so many pressures that to score nine-under after two rounds is some result, ... I made it look easy out there but it wasn't, I can assure you. In fact, it was bloody hard.