Byron Nelson Quotes

I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

I get seasick quite badly.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

After a lot of laps, you start to get dizzy.

You see a lot of guys who are told they will be the number one contender if they win the fight in front of them. They have fought a couple of really tough guys to get there, but when the chance is presented to them, something happens in some shape or form, and they aren't able to take it. They end up losing. That was the biggest fear for me.

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.