Severiano Ballesteros Quotes

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

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

I'm here because golf is my sport and I like to compete, ... Just by being here I'm already beginning to win.

Gary Player became the golfer I admired most from 1972 when I got to caddie at a pro-am in Spain. He grabbed my attention because, every day, he was the first to arrive and the last to leave. He worked so hard.

The British always saw this. I would hit a shot that maybe they recognised from their own game. But they loved it when I got out of trouble with what Peter Alliss called miracle shots.

There are a lot of players with great talent and a great future ahead. But impress me? I don't get impressed that easily.

The boy is a genius. If he ever learns to play he will be unbeatable. John Jacobs on Seve in 1976.

I am still young, when I'm older there will be time to be careful. Seve after finishing runner-up in the 1976 British Open. He never did find time.

Seve- the greatest thing to come out of Spain since a painting by Picasso that made sense. David Jenkins.

He goes after a golf course like a lion at a zebra... he tries to hold its head under the water until it stops wriggling. Jim Murray

If the water is rough in Santander Bay you fight harder in the boat. You do not give up. Seve Ballesteros, a fisherman's son.

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.

Sometimes I think the only way the Spanish people will recognise me is if I win the grand slam and then drop dead on the 18th green.

When I play good I have so much fun and so much pleasure that there is no money in the world that can buy that. I want to keep that for as long as I can.

I can' understand how anyone can drive that badly and still win an Open championship. Hale Irwin on Seve in 1979

Seve can have an off day and still win. But if Seve plays well and the rest of us play well, Seve wins. Ben Crenshaw.

Seve's got shots the rest of us don't even know. Ben Crenshaw.

The only time I talk on a golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

If we were in charge, we would have far more matchplay. That is real golf. I love matchplay.

I don't trust doctors. They are like golfers. Each one has a different answer to your problem.

I feel calm in calm colours. I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.

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