Bernhard Langer Quotations

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

We're here to offer our support and provide the people with some hope.

On the second part of the question, we all know that the home team, the home captain can setup the golf course any way he wants.

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

We sat in the house thinking it wasn't going to be all that bad in Boca Raton, and it was bad - much worse than we thought. It was scary at times. I wish we had left. One tree fell on the roof against the house. When the storm blew the other way, the tree was gone off the roof. It was a big tree, nothing you can pick up with five men.

Yes, the German's have a lot of good engineering people and they might be precise but that doesn't mean 85 million people are all precise.

It was really to cut down the notion or the idea of some people that golf is only for the rich and not a minority sport and all of that kind of thing.

It was painful and difficult to look at. It is even harder to understand. You see one house on high ground and a few hundred feet away there's nothing but rubble.

It was a fantastic response from Luke. The result could not have been better and it just shows how good a player he is to have played only eight events in Europe this year and win twice. I'm delighted for him.

I love to hear great sermons; I like going to church in America because there's a lot more preaching and less of the routine stuff.

I'm very pleased with who we got, ... You can't count the British Open, so its the third best field in Europe this year.

In '85, I'd been married for one year and I was still very single-minded on golf. My life was pretty much 95% golf and my wife was the rest.

I am more in favor of everybody being available and I feel we need the top players, but I am only one of 16 or whatever,

And I was hitting it very solid. The last six holes I played extremely well.