The 2016 Ryder Cup is only days away to get underway and as always the competitive and patriotic natures of players past and present is expected to overflow over the next few days. Of course this competitiveness and patriotism has lead to some of the best golf related quotes in history and well all love a good quote don’t we?!
Here are our favourites from years gone by…let’s hope there are a few more zingers thrown into the ring this week!
Well there only one way to kick this post off…with words from the man who started it all, Samuel Ryder himself…
Ummm…from time to time we see evidence of Sam’s Ryder Cup dream!
[quote]I trust that the effect of this match will be to influence a cordial, friendly and peaceful feeling throughout the whole civilised world… I look upon the Royal and Ancient game as being a powerful force that influences the best things in humanity.[/quote]Samuel Ryder
Now that’s a more accurate description!
[quote]It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.[/quote]Peter Alliss
It’s pretty good alright…much better than the Super Bowl anyway!
[quote]The Ryder Cup is now one of the most riveting, most exciting, most keenly anticipated and most closely contested events in all sport. It is golf’s Super Bowl, the Royal and Ancient game’s Olympics. It is Big Time in capital letters![/quote]Alister Nicol
Hoch the Choke just oozes class after beating Faldo and Westwood in a foursomes match in 97!
[quote]Nick Faldo is as much fun as Saddam Hussein.[/quote]Scott Hoch
If this is true and I ever play in the Ryder Cup I will most likely block upteen shots in a row so far right I would run out of balls and have to forfeit the match!
[quote]If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you’ll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.[/quote]Johnny Miller
Paddy describes the feeling of playing in the Ryder Cup
[quote]It’s not a pleasant feeling. It’s like riding a roller coaster or bungee jumping. As it’s happening, you’re thinking, ‘Why am I doing this?’ When it’s finished you’re thinking, ‘Oh, that was great.[/quote]Padraig Harrington
There has been the odd European walkover since then though eh Tony?! Bring on another one!
[quote]Sam Torrance offered me a lift to the course in his car. Then he told me I was playing him and he intended driving to London so that if neither of us turned up he would get a half-point.[/quote]Lee Trevino
Not a bad tactic if you aren’t playing your best stuff!
[quote]One thing is certain, these matches are going to be as close as this from now on. There will be no more American walkovers.[/quote]European Captain Tony Jacklin
Lehman comments on the famous team spirit of the Europeans after loosing the 97 Ryder Cup at Valderrama
[quote]I’m still totally convinced we have the twelve best players, today proved that. But put their guys together and they have magic at their fingertips[/quote]Tom Lehman
Duval gets a bit too pumped up before the infamous final day of the 1999 match!
[quote]Let’s go kill them![/quote]David Duval
Has there ever been a better partnership in the Ryder Cup than Seve and Ollie?
[quote]I let José Maria win the first five… then I took over because he was a little tired.[/quote]Seve Ballesteros
The ultimate inspiration for Team Europe
[quote]When Seve gets his Porsche going, not even San Pedro in Heaven can stop him.[/quote]José Maria Olazábal
Jack lays down the complexities of being a Ryder Cup Captain…you listening Monty?
[quote]After we select our teams each day and hand in the piece of paper, all that’s left is to go on course and act important.[/quote]Jack Nicklaus
The Europeans have certainly enjoyed plenty of time with the Ryder Cup over the last decade!
[quote]Enjoy your time with this pretty little thing, ’cause two years from now, we’re comin’ to get it.[/quote]Lanny Wadkins
The European Captain cuts to the chase while exhaling cigarette smoke through his nostrils after his team’s victory at The Belfry in 2002.
[quote]Hurry up with your questions. It sounds like a hell of a party out there.[/quote]Sam Torrance
Mark James speaking following the 1993 Ryder Cup. Clearly he had a crystal ball and had seen the American outfits from the 1999 match in advance!
[quote]The only thing that scares me about the Americans now is their dress sense[/quote]Mark James
[quote]If you don’t pull yourself together, I’m going to join them, and you can play all three of us, you useless bastard![/quote]Sam Torrance
Now the source of many of our favourite golf quotes, David Feherty gets a roasting from his team mate at Kiawah Island
[quote]We’re going to have to start giving the Americans handicap strokes. This is getting boring.[/quote]Sandy Lyle
