Quotes from Jack Nicklaus

I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

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

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

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.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

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.

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.

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.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

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

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.