Jack Nicklaus Quotes - Page 8

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Careers, Littles, Augusta National

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• I think in my case winning fans came as a result of winning tournaments. Certainly, I didn't have too many supporters when I came on Tour. I didn't look like an athlete, I was overweight, had a crew cut, baggy clothes and on top of that I didn't smile much. I was very serious about my game, literally and figuratively the heavy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Cutting, Winning

  Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

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• At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Trying

  Source: www.augusta.com

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• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Long

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• If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sorry, Play, Watches

  Source: www.augusta.com

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• You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Philosophy, Eye, Golf

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Design, Purpose

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• We [with my wife] felt like we had the ability to help people not just on a local basis, but on a national basis.

  Jack Nicklaus

  People, Wife, Helping

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

  Jack Nicklaus

  Basketball, Monday, Night

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• [My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Son, Golf, Littles

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Strong, Workout, Thinking

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Football, Player, Years

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Men, Together

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• I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Golf, Thinking

  Source: www.augusta.com

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Scotland, Special

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• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Design, Tree

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• Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Player, Two

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Senior, Opportunity, Careers

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Opposites

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• Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Country, Two, Augusta National

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Victory, Proud, Interviews

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1997). “Jack Nicklaus”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Bob Ford is a great guy. He's a great friend. He's done a great job at Oakmont and Seminole. He's a very quiet man. He doesn't get in the middle of everything, but he understands what a nice job he's done at both places.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Jobs, Nice, Men

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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