If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
We [with my wife] felt like we had the ability to help people not just on a local basis, but on a… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to… — 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
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
You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and… — 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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