Quotes About Seve Ballesteros

#1. 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

#2. Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

Sam Torrance

#3. 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

#4. Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

Seve Ballesteros

#5. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

C.D. Wright

#6. I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.

Seve Ballesteros

#7. 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

#8. I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

Seve Ballesteros

#9. Without question, I wake every night five times.

George Clooney

#10. To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Seve Ballesteros

#11. I may not be the best at what I do. But what I do, I do the best that I can.

Tamara Shoemaker

#12. 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

#13. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetrrs inside your skull

Heather Demetrios

#14. They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

Seve Ballesteros

#15. I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

Marge Piercy

#16. In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.

Seve Ballesteros

#17. Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

Ann Aguirre

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. She played me. I totally got hustled by Kira.
And I like it.

Nyrae Dawn

#21. I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Seve Ballesteros

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.

James Hillman

#26. I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

Seve Ballesteros

#27. Maybe this city did deserve Aelin Galathynius's flames. Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.

Seve Ballesteros

#29. I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

Andy Kindler