Jack Nicklaus Quotes on Golf (28 Quotes)

They've totally eliminated what Bobby Jones tried to do in the game of golf. Bobby Jones believed golf was primarily a second-shot game.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

It feels a lot better to have a win. I may never captain another team. I may never play another round of golf. If I end my career this way, what a way to end it.

I have no desire anymore to play competitive golf. It was the only time I missed the cut when I wasn't unhappy about it,

I love Augusta. Don't get me wrong. All I want is for Augusta to be Augusta, because it's such a great tournament. But when you take a golf course and limit the number of people that have the ability to win ... Their intention is not to do that. But they're doing that.

I may not captain another team, and I may not play another competitive round of golf, ... If that's the way it is, this is a pretty good way to end it.

I think that bogey might have been good for me, because it put me back, brought me back to reality that I really had to still play golf. I wasn't really in contention. It sort of got me in contention again.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

I promise you it is very simple to bring the golf ball back 10 and still keep its characteristics. The players don't have to change their drivers, they don't have to change their irons. If the golf ball goes shorter, you don't have to come out every year and have this conversation about what had to be done at Augusta to combat the golf ball.

I don't know why in the world they cared about winning one for an old man, ... They needed to win one for themselves. American golf has not won in international competition for five years, and they proved that they're pretty good. . . . If I'm never involved in the game of golf again, it's not a bad way to end it. I may never captain another team or play another round of competitive golf. This is pretty special.

I picked St. Andrews to end my career because they've taken me as one of theirs, ... In the States, they have a purely sports gallery. There's nothing wrong with that, but over here it's purely a golfing gallery, and it means a lot to me as well as other people. It's an appropriate place to end my career.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

So golf is trying to get used to the fact that the man who will rule the game for the next 20 years shaves twice a week and has been drinking legally for almost three months now. He's more dominant over the guys he's playing against than I ever was over the ones I played against, ... He's so long, he reduces the course to nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Most people work all their life to retire and play golf. I played golf all my life to retire and go to work.

It allows somebody like myself, who is really not playing a whole lot of golf, to have some fun, play with some of my old friends, and have a little competition which I always yearn for.

Top-performing equipment makes a big difference on the golf course and at home. That's why we use Lawn-Boy.

I love Augusta. But when they take the golf tournament and the golf course and limit the number of people who have the ability to win . . . that is the problem.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is playing badly well. All the true greats have been masters at it.

The first guy on the moon throws a golf ball, not a football. He throws a golf ball.

Angelo was known for his ... grey afro, but he should also be known for being an excellent caddie, ... Angelo always went out early in the morning and got the pins, and knew enough of the golf course and my golf game, that any information I needed, he generally had.

I may not ever play another round of golf, ... and if I end my career this way, it's a pretty good way to end it.

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

I may never captain another team, ... I may not play another round of (competitive) golf. If I end my career like this, it's a pretty good way to end it.

It's a major championship in the game of golf, ... But is it one of the ones that you want to put in that list Because of Jones is the only way you would put it there. I accept it either way.

Maturity plays a great part in golf. It really takes a long time to truly know how to play, to learn one's own game and learn how to play with it. Some players learn earlier, but even then they tend to peak later. I can't imagine Tiger being any different. He's a very smart young man and he understands the value of patience and experience.

We played three days, four rounds of golf, and we are dead even. We've got two teams that are so even, it's unbelievable. What's going to happen tomorrow Who knows

I always spend a lot of time with my family, ... The difference is I used to be gone for a week playing golf. Now I'm gone for a few days on course work.