"You cannot underestimate Sergio. He's got a great Ryder Cup record and I was just trying to keep playing, keep my nose to the grindstone and keep grinding away" Anthony Kim gives Garcia a little too much credit after striding towards the 15th tee when he had already won his match 5&4.

"Today was a hard day. I played against a guy that played awesome and it's hard when you're in one of those kinds of situations. I felt like I had a shot. Unfortunately I couldn't get anything right today" Garcia on his emphatic defeat to Kim

"This is as fun and as hard as it gets" Hunter Mahan

"Hunter dropped a bomb on me on the 17th and I said to him, 'do you know that was going about six or seven feet past?'. He laughed and said to me 'I think it was going further than that"' Paul Casey on Mahan's 50-foot putt on 17.

"I figured this was going to define my career, but you know what, it made my career" Local boy done good Kenny Perry.

"I've been at this point when we've lost, at The Belfry in 2002, and it was an awful feeling, so to be in this match, I feel bad for Miguel but it's nice to be in this spot" Jim Furyk on his victory over Jimenez that buried the bad memories of Paul McGinley's winning putt six years ago.

"I put my heart and soul into this for two years, my players put their heart and soul into this for one week and they deserve it, they played great, the crowd was unbelievable and I couldn't be happier" USA captain Paul Azinger savours victory.

"I'm so proud of my 12 guys, they've put their heart and soul into this event and we've come up short but not in pride and spirit" Losing captain Nick Faldo.

"You've just got to take your hat off sometimes, and the Americans played really, really well. Oliver Wilson is four under par with no bogeys and lost three and two. Sometimes you can't account for that" Justin Rose starts the head-scratching.

"No, I'm very happy. That's one of my goals, to leave Sunday night knowing I did my best for the team and I'm more than comfortable with how everything has panned out" Faldo, when asked if would have changed anything.

"He gave us ping pong and he gave us football and he gave us every opportunity to have fun, and if we couldn't take advantage of it, it was our own damned fault" Boo Weekley on the Azinger effect.

"No, not right now. It ain't nothing like shooting a deer" Weekley compares the merits of winning a Ryder Cup with hunting.

"Well, I'm not going to tell you just yet. Not yet. I took them in, I came in with a plan" Azinger refuses to give away any secrets of his success.

"The European team is still just a phenomenal team, and when I looked down, I evaluated every match, like, our edge, their edge, toss-up, and it seemed like every single one to me was toss-up, toss-up, toss-up, maybe their edge a little bit. I had no idea" Azinger on the American singles order.

"No way, no way, no way, no way" American fans have the last laugh, to the tune of 'Ole Ole Ole'.