Ben Crenshaw Quotes

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

From someone who has won five Ballons d'Or you can learn a lot.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

I always say the greats just get better.

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

The secret of success is to do a common thing uncommonly well.

Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

You don't see many Jon Jones's.

Messi is really unpredictable. He's head-and-shoulders above everyone. Undeniably.

You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.

There's no one beating Mr. Bachchan when it comes to acting. He is outstanding. He is a phenomenal actor and a thorough gentleman. His natural skills at acting just bowled me over, and I've become an even bigger fan of his after working with him.

I've never seen and nor do I think I will ever see someone with Messi's consistency.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

Neymar is a great player with a lot of class, one of the best in the world.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.