If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well,… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, "Never make a putt you don't have to." — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing,… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
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