Seve Quotes

#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 wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.

Johnny Miller

#3. Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Tiger Woods

#4. You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.

Lee Westwood

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

Sam Torrance

#6. 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

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

Seve Ballesteros

#9. Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

Nancy Werlin

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

Seve Ballesteros

#11. 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

#12. I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Tate Taylor

#13. Perhaps there was an unstoppable magic inherent in music and art.

Sarah J. Maas

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

Seve Ballesteros

#15. 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 miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.

Seve Ballesteros

#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. One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.

Katherine Marsh

#20. God is most high. To choose God, his light, his way his truth (all Christ), means everything flows from the highest point. To choose something lesser is to compel your life to flow from a lesser rise - a hill, rather than a mountain.

Elizabeth Scalia

#21. 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

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

Seve Ballesteros

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. So are you saying I'm your Superman?"

--- Josh Copeland

Dawn Chartier

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

Seve Ballesteros

#29. My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

Paul McCartney