Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Seve Ballesteros

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Severiano Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 international tournaments in his career, including five major championships between 1979 and 1988: the Open Championship three times and the Masters Tournament twice. He gained attention in the golfing world in 1976, when at the age of 19, he finished second at The Open. He played a leading role in the re-emergence of European golf, helping the European Ryder Cup team to five wins both as a player and captain.

Spanish - Golfer | April 9, 1957 - May 7, 2011

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

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

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

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

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

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 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

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

Seve Ballesteros

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

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

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

Seve Ballesteros

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