Look at this excerpt from the interview Olga Viza Ballesteros him in the pages of Make:
P. This damn disease had already been crossed in your life for years. Your father was treated in the United States. Some might wonder why you wanted not to move to Spain.
R. With my father I learned one thing: doctors and hospitals in the U.S. are outstanding, but let me say that here, too. Hospital La Paz is incredible. They have the latest technology, constantly renewed and the doctors are as good as the Americans. Here we are also prepared and so I would like to be aware. Somehow I would like to help the Foundation for Research on Cancer Hospital La Paz, Madrid, because this is the real war should be the true and the only one: the fight against disease, to help heal people that suffer. Diseases do not distinguish or race, or ideology, or nationality. They are the true enemy and our greatest wealth is health. Always
stated that the real legacy of Ballesteros in the world of golf was, apart from its style and character, the need and capacity, which was to convince others that things could be done. He was really convinced I could beat anyone on a golf course, and did not stop until it 's boring did ... until he knew his country ... and even the British, European and especially North Americans took over. This effort brought back to life a round of golf he was dying (much of European golf players of the past 30 years owe the money they have earned Seve, "said Segurola wisely) got look away from the entire country, the United States, he believed he had more than enough with the internal performance I attended (the tail of what was called 'the big three', Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus, and the immediate incorporation of Tom Watson to continue challenging the great Golden Bear Nicklaus, still the best player in golf, 'major to major', history), and finally restored the prestige lost a competition, The Ryder Cup so exciting and real to today's other sports that turns every two years at her with eyes wide, looking to copy its touch of distinction is not without competition.
Here we are also prepared, and so I would like to be aware ... "Seve is the message by Olga Viza an entire country and the world-class sport, but perhaps still not at the forefront of fighting and cancer research.
This was in 2009. Two years later, his attempt to bring this into practice as he describes his own physician, Dr. Cristobal Belda , from the pages of El País, in an article entitled 'The Legacy' , the day after his death: "If we combine to the best English and European scientists in a partnership that can compete against this disease, adequately fund and put at the service of my teammates, the wins will come very quickly and we can help many people. "
The Ryder Cup is just a golf tournament, for Severiano Ballesteros was a way of life
