Jack Nicklaus
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.Collection: Inspirational
My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.Collection: Basketball
You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, "Never make a putt you don't have to."Collection: Son
There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No that's not right. I probably have forgotten more about golf than I will ever learn. What you do is remember some of the things you thought you would never forget.Collection: Fun
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 any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.Collection: Golf
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.Collection: Golf
Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.Collection: Golf
1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.Collection: Winning
The most difficult thing for me is keeping yourself focused on what you're doing. As you go play, you try to get your focus and desire. You don't do it to the level you would do it if you wanted to win. You have to work at it and be on top of your game.Collection: Winning
If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.Collection: Golf
We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.Collection: Soccer
Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.Collection: Fun
I think we have more good players today [2016] than we've ever had in the game of golf. And I think that's saying a lot because we had a lot of good players when I played. I think you had a bit of a lag in there for a while, that Tiger was just so much better than everybody else that he really didn't put anybody in with him.Collection: Golf
Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.Collection: Golf
I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Golf
They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.Collection: School
I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.Collection: Golf
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.Collection: Golf
This is a tournament. The others are all championships.Collection: Golf
I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.Collection: Jobs
Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.Collection: Winning
Bob Ford is a great guy. He's a great friend. He's done a great job at Oakmont and Seminole. He's a very quiet man. He doesn't get in the middle of everything, but he understands what a nice job he's done at both places.Collection: Jobs
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.Collection: Slopes
I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.Collection: Football
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.Collection: Country
You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.Collection: Sports
I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."Collection: Basketball
If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.Collection: Nice
None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.Collection: Strong
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 else.Collection: Kids
I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.Collection: Play
[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.Collection: Kids
We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.Collection: Father
I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.Collection: Father
I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.Collection: Men
Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.Collection: Daughter