Greg Norman Biography

Greg Norman, Athlete

Born as	Gregory John Norman
Occup.	Athlete
From	Australia
Born	February 10, 1955
Age	70 years

[Gregory John Norman] is an Australian specialist golfer who was rated as the world's ideal gamer in 331 weeks in 1980 - as well as 1990's. He has the label The Great White Shark. Norman was a specialist gamer in 1976.

He won The Open Championship twice, in 1986 and 1993, yet is understood to have bad luck. In 1986 Norman led all four major tournaments after the third round, yet won just The Open. He shed his victory in the PGA Championship after Bob Tway hole a bunker-kind, as well as in The Masters the following year lost to Larry Mize Norman, that established a 40-meter chip in the opening. Probably his most renowned game remained in The Masters in 1996, when he ran out a six-kind of management in the last round and also lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by 5 strokes.

Norman's sympathetic nature made him the ideal representative for various items, consisting of the usual range of golf tools, yet additionally lots of various other products. While he has actually continued to play tournaments, his organization made an increasing number of the moment. His individual lot of money is approximated at several hundred million U.S. bucks. Norman is the only gamer in background to have covered pengelisten on both sides of the Atlantic.

He wed in 2008 with previous U.S. tennis player Chris Evert. Norman stays in Hobe Sound, Florida.

Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Greg, under the main topic Sports.

Related authors: Nick Faldo (Athlete), John Norman (Writer), Chris Evert (Athlete)

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23 Famous quotes by Greg Norman

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father"

Greg Norman

"Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game"

Greg Norman

"Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world"

Greg Norman

"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it"

Greg Norman

"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us"

Greg Norman

"I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament"

Greg Norman

"What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough"

Greg Norman

"When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right"

Greg Norman

"The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back"

Greg Norman

"That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it"

Greg Norman

"So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it"

Greg Norman

"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it"

Greg Norman

"I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself"

Greg Norman

"When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery"

Greg Norman

"I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf"

Greg Norman

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman

"You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule"

Greg Norman

"The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well"

Greg Norman

"My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body"

Greg Norman

"Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in"

Greg Norman

"On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass"

Greg Norman

"I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives"

Greg Norman

"To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it"

Greg Norman