Colin Montgomerie Quotes

#1. All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

Paul Cezanne

#2. As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

John Aubrey

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

Colin Montgomerie

#4. Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.

David Ignatius

#5. 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.

Colin Montgomerie

#6. Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin ... wickedness has made you ugly.

George MacDonald

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

Colin Montgomerie

#8. 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.

Colin Montgomerie

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

Colin Montgomerie

#10. 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.

Colin Montgomerie

#11. 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.

Colin Montgomerie

#12. When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour.

Brenna Ehrlich

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

Colin Montgomerie

#14. 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.

Colin Montgomerie