Top 33 Ballesteros Quotes
#1. God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."
Tom Callahan
#2. When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.
Dan Jenkins
#3. Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
Lee Trevino
#4. Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.
Sam Torrance
#5. The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
Dan Jenkins
#6. They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.
Seve Ballesteros
#8. Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
Jeanette Winterson
#9. Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
Christopher Gorham
#10. If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.
Seve Ballesteros
#11. He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Benjamin Franklin
#12. To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Seve Ballesteros
#13. He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.
-Anthony's thoughts
Julia Quinn
#14. I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.
Seve Ballesteros
#16. A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.
Seve Ballesteros
#17. I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.
Seth Green
#18. Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith ...
Benjamin Franklin
#20. An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
E.F. Benson
#22. The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.
Seve Ballesteros
#23. The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.
Seve Ballesteros
#24. I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.
Seve Ballesteros
#25. For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it's coming: The end.
Seve Ballesteros
#26. Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.
Seve Ballesteros
#27. I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
Seve Ballesteros
#28. I'd rather be a free dog running free than fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#29. My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.
Jenna Morasca
#30. Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei
#31. Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.
Seve Ballesteros
#33. I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.
Seve Ballesteros
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