Seve Ballesteros Quotations

My intention is to compete until I'm 54. So if I join the Champions Tour, it will only be for four years - no more than that. I'm in the golf course design business. This is my future. I'd rather go to a place where there is nothing and design a golf course. This will be a good legacy for me to leave.

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

I am really very happy with the final score today. It has been a great two days of competition and the European Team played fantastic. The Asian team also showed a tremendous game. On this occasion we had a little more luck, but at the end of the day golf is the real champion.

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.

He was amazing to work with though, a genius. I've never seen anyone with such skill, especially with wedges. He had shots no one else had. He had control over the ball like no-one else. The new balls killed off his edge though.

He was totally illogical. I had to fight through his personality to get him to do what I wanted him to do. I could never just tell him what to do. I always had to make him think everything was his idea. I'd manipulate him until he'd suggest something and I would immediately agree:

Just to come back is fantastic, ... The back is fine and tomorrow I hope to have a better start and score well.

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

The problem was the first three holes. I didn't feel comfortable and was a bit tense. That made the rest of the day difficult, but I played well on the back nine.

Yeah, but I'll be working as a marshal. I'll be helping your team find all the balls they drive into the rough.

The players are happy to be a part of this tournament and we think it has a great future. We are making history here. The Ryder Cup started in 1927 and the Royal Trophy in 2006. Maybe in a few years time, this will be one of the best sporting events in the world.

As a player and captain, these are unforgettable moments where you are competing for your team-mates, your country and for the people of your continent.

Ask the American players how many weeks in a row they play in Japan.

It is very sad. I was treated with disrespect. It was hard to sleep, and I cried because the players' committee judged me without regard for the big picture and my contributions to the European tour.

You talk too sophisticated for me. I don't understand.

I know where I am and I know which way I'm going, ... Only winning will satisfy me. You don't think it is possible? It is very possible.

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

I played some great shots out there and my game is getting progressively better and better.

I don't see any players who really today impress me from either side of the Atlantic, to be honest,

I don't see any players who really impress me from either side of the Atlantic, to be honest. 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 game is progressing better and better every day and I feel great,

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.

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

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