Peter Alliss Quotations

As nice a person as he may be, being a foursome partner for John Daly must be the world's worst nightmare. It could send you into a lunatic asylum. Here we are, John, we're 3 up with five to play. This 310-yard hole with out-of-bounds on the left, lake on the right and it's your honor. Just pop it up there. 'Why, no, I can drive the green!'

It's for all the gold in the world.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

I can’t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Those trees seem to grow every year...

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.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.