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.Collection: Golf
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golfCollection: Passion
Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.Collection: Golf
If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.Collection: Athlete
Golf is you against yourself.Collection: Golf
Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.Collection: Golf
The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways.Collection: Wrestling
Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Golf
Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.Collection: Sports
I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it.Collection: Mistake
I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.Collection: Winning
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.Collection: Sports
I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.Collection: Philosophy
Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.Collection: Believe
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.Collection: Inspirational
Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.Collection: Golf
Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.Collection: Smart
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.Collection: Learning
Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk about it a lot. Do you really need to be that honest? You know what I mean? But he's a good man. He's a good family man. He's got good values, and we're delighted to have him as our honoree.Collection: Mean
Donald Trump has been a good friend for a long time. I texted him after the election and I said 'congratulations, Mr. President. The Nicklauses are all happy for the Trumps,' and I said, 'It's time to bring American together, make American great again as you wish.'Collection: Good Friend
The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Golf
It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.Collection: Enjoy
Golf is a game of precision, not strength.Collection: Golf
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.Collection: Golf
We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.Collection: Mistake
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 a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.Collection: Nice
People only do their best at things they truly enjoyCollection: People
I never thought about being No. 1. I just kept trying to be No. 1.Collection: Trying
You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.Collection: Golf
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 golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.Collection: Baseball
Before every shot, I go to the moviesCollection: Motivational
Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.Collection: Done
Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.Collection: Golf
Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.Collection: Feet
I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.Collection: Bye
I'm tired of giving my best and not having it be good enough.Collection: Tired
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.Collection: Golf
Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.Collection: Golf
If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.Collection: Beach
Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.Collection: Golf
I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.Collection: Softball
I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.Collection: Stupid
I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.Collection: Mean
Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.Collection: Golf
One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.Collection: Mistake
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizonCollection: Lakes
Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.Collection: Reflection