Ballesteros Quotes & Sayings

I shall expect your reply within a month. Surely that is time enough to ... weigh your other offers.'
She stared at him. Well. She'd underestimated Lord Prescott. Or perhaps, more accurately, she hadn't fully estimated him ...
'Thank you, Lord Prescott. It's helpful to know that your desire for me will expire by a particular date.'
'Much like the desirability of any woman. You of all people should be fully aware that a woman's bloom doesn't last forever. Nor does her ability to bear children.'
...
'Thank you for reminding me. It slipped my mind, temporarily.'
He nodded, smiling a little, acknowledging her little barb. 'Good day, Miss de Ballesteros. I am not a man without feeling, and I think I shall depart now, to recover from the decidedly ambivalent receipt of my proposal.'
She smiled a little at that.
'Good day, Lord Prescott. Perhaps I should retire, too, to preserve my bloom. — Julie Anne Long

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

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it. — Seve Ballesteros

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

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

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

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall. — Dan Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She wouldn't look up at him, wouldn't take her hands from her eyes; she didn't want him to see her. So he wrapped his arms around her like armor, making a shelter for her to fall apart ... He surreptitiously rested his cheek against the top of her head. That rich hair was too silky and fine and warm, and her narrow pale part seemed ridiculously pale and vulnerable as a fontanelle. Here, it seemed to say, was proof that Thomasina de Ballesteros could be broken. Cracked like an egg. That she was human.
The rage he felt then toward the duke was almost euphoric. Almost holy.
This is how crusades are born, he thought. With this kind of certainty about right and wrong, good and evil, and the need to avenge. — Julie Anne Long

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

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more." — Tom Callahan

Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America. — Sam Torrance

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

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

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

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