People Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

— Jack Nicklaus

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

— Jack Nicklaus

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

We [with my wife] felt like we had the ability to help people not just on a local basis, but on a…

— Jack Nicklaus

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought…

— Jack Nicklaus

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

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

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

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

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all…

— Jack Nicklaus

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

You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is…

— Jack Nicklaus