Quotes About Golf

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

This whole golf thing was so left field for us, as Polynesians, but he had a lot of knowledge about sports in general. My dad was a genius, really. He was an absolute genius.

My dad was always very hard on me when it came to sports. He always used golf to teach me life lessons.

I feel I've created some better opportunities in The Open than my record suggests and I know I can play links golf really, really well.

Golf is my passion and livelihood.

I never envisaged how much I'd enjoy just being at home, with the kids, playing loads of golf.

I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

I wanted to be on the front cover of golf magazines and I've done that.

Golf is my main thing I love playing any chance I get.

I am happy that my son has been responsible for putting India on the world map in golf.

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air.

Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice round of golf, and you can keep the fresh air and the round of golf.

The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it.

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

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar

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

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

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

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

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.