Bernhard Langer Quotes

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

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

— Bernhard Langer

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

— Bernhard Langer

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

— Bernhard Langer

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

— Bernhard Langer

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

— 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 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

“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

“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 grew up in the time of Germany after the war.”

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— Bernhard Langer

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Bernhard Langer

“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.”

— Bernhard Langer

“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.”

— Bernhard Langer

“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.”

— Bernhard Langer