Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Nicklaus

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Jack Nicklaus

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

Jack Nicklaus

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

Jack Nicklaus

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

Jack Nicklaus

This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Jack Nicklaus

That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

Jack Nicklaus

Then, [my son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jack Nicklaus

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

Jack Nicklaus

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

Jack Nicklaus

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

Jack Nicklaus

I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.

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 see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

Jack Nicklaus

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

Jack Nicklaus

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Jack Nicklaus

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

Jack Nicklaus

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

Jack Nicklaus

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

Jack Nicklaus

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

Jack Nicklaus

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

Jack Nicklaus

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

Jack Nicklaus

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Jack Nicklaus

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Jack Nicholson

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Jack Abramoff

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

My level of play has dropped, not out of neglect or anything. It's just that's the way it goes. I mean, golf is a weird game.

People kid Phil, but he's one of the most intelligent persons I've ever been around. He's always thinking ahead. He's a smart man. He's really worked his butt off to learn this golf course.

Bill Cosby

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

Bert Blyleven

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Bill Bryson

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.