44 Quotes by 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.

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.