Sorenstam Quotes

#1. I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.

Yani Tseng

#2. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Vijay Singh

#3. On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

Annika Sorenstam

#4. Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

Annika Sorenstam

#5. Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

Annika Sorenstam

#7. At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

#8. I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

Annika Sorenstam

#9. Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory.

Anthony Liccione

#10. A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell.

Liesl Shurtliff

#11. When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

Annika Sorenstam

#12. I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

Annika Sorenstam

#13. To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

Annika Sorenstam

#14. I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.

Annika Sorenstam

#15. I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

Annika Sorenstam

#16. I think it's important for me to play well and set the tone.

Annika Sorenstam

#17. There are no shortcuts to success.

Annika Sorenstam

#18. I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

Annika Sorenstam

#19. Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Joseph Addison

#20. Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.

Ann Brashares

#21. A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

Annika Sorenstam

#22. It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

Annika Sorenstam

#23. But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Albert Camus

#24. You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

Annika Sorenstam

#25. Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

John Donvan

#26. I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Annika Sorenstam