Quotes By Jack Nicklaus

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

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.

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.

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.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

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

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

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.

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

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

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

I can barely turn on my computer!

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

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.

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

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.

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.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.