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Type: Athlete Quotes Category: German Athlete Quotes Date of Birth: August 27, 1957 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Bernhard Langer Related Authors: Boris Becker Jurgen Klinsmann Franz Beckenbauer Thomas Dooley Steffi Graf Oliver Kahn Katarina Witt |
But I can tell you when I played golf in 1970, we had about 100 courses in Germany and now we have about 600. That's quite an increase.
Bernhard Langer But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general. Bernhard Langer But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game. Bernhard Langer Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in. Bernhard Langer Generally as a player, I know that sooner or later you would like to know or have some idea who you might be playing or if you're playing at all. Bernhard Langer I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold. Bernhard Langer I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. Bernhard Langer I grew up in the time of Germany after the war. Bernhard Langer I had putting problems a long time ago so I had the label of a bad putter. And I've had that label for 27 years now! But I'm not a bad putter. Bernhard Langer I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments. Bernhard Langer If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold. Bernhard Langer So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. Bernhard Langer To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Bernhard Langer We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is. Bernhard Langer We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer 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. Bernhard Langer You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends. Bernhard Langer You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different. Bernhard Langer You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. Bernhard Langer You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. Bernhard Langer |
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