Faldo's Quotes

#1. 'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

Jason Day

#2. John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

Nick Faldo

#3. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#4. It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does ... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

Nick Faldo

#5. We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

#6. I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

Nick Faldo

#7. One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Ron Atkinson

#8. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

#9. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery
love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.

Tennessee Williams

#10. The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

Nick Faldo

#11. He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques, the facility for it. That part if you'll excuse the expression, was in his blood. But he never really had the heart for it.

Jeffrey Ford

#12. It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

M. Stanton Evans

#13. Whatever you need me to be, I'll be! Friends? Fine! Best friends? Great! I'll do it, because I want you in my life more than anything I have ever wanted.

Renee Carlino

#14. I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

Nick Faldo

#15. Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Nick Faldo

#16. The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Nick Faldo

#17. He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

Nick Faldo

#18. I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Marat Safin

#19. My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.

Nick Faldo

#20. When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

Nick Faldo

#21. Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Nick Faldo

#22. Then
why don't I tell on him?
If they don't,
why don't I?
Because.
Because I am safe this way,
silent
unnoticed.

Thalia Chaltas

#23. Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

Ian Poulter

#24. 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

#25. A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Amy Goodman

#26. You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Nick Faldo

#27. The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#28. It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Nick Faldo

#29. I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

Nick Faldo

#30. My time with my family is a priority.

Nick Faldo