370 Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

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.

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.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.

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

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don’t think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that’s one of the reasons I wasn’t gregarious with the gallery.

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.

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

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there’s something special about it. And when it’s at St. Andrews, it’s even greater.