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Jack Nicklaus

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The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.
TIM FINCHEM
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
JACK NICKLAUS
He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. ...
MICHAEL BONALLACK
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES
I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.
TIM FINCHEM
Go get 'em, John. Jack Nicklaus.
LANNY WADKINS
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired fr...
GREG RUSEDSKI
Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ
Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
DAN JENKINS
Whether he was kidding or not, ... Tiger Woods wouldn't say it. Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say it.
DAVIS LOVE III
Whether he was kidding or not, ... Tiger Woods wouldn't say it; Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say it.
DAVIS LOVE III
I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.
MOLLY SIMS
The precision of the quiet eye location often mirrors the precision required to perform well in a sp...
JOAN VICKERS
Jack [Nicklaus]'s got to start thinking about when it is time to retire.
KEN VENTURI
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.
JOHNNY MILLER
I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
TIGER WOODS
I looked over at Weir and said, 'Can I say something to him?' But that's Jack Nicklaus. I can't need...
KENNY PERRY
Obviously, we were playing for Jack Nicklaus this week after the kind of year he's had,
DAVIS LOVE III
It's sad not having Arnie ( Palmer ) and Jack ( Nicklaus ) here. We've had so many good times but ev...
GARY PLAYER
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.
JOHNNY MILLER
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order ...
DAN JENKINS
I haven't talked to (U.S. team captain) Jack Nicklaus about who I might be paired with,
TIGER WOODS
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
BEN HOGAN
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
The first thing I thought was that Jack [Nicklaus] really would have wanted to get his hands on it. ...
CHET WILLIAMS
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
BILL SHOEMAKER
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER
Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generatio...
KENNY PERRY
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
ART SPANDER
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
BEN HOGAN
It was kind of every golfer's dream. You make a putt to win a tournament and walk off to shake the h...
BART BRYANT
He's an irreplaceable guy. I think of Payne Stewart and there's a guy that's going to be like Jack N...
DUFFY WALDORF
It's an innate thing, ... It's a Tiger Woods thing, it's a Jack Nicklaus thing. And that's what you ...
CHRIS KNUTSEN
To win here where Jack Nicklaus has won a couple of times, I touched his plaque there on 18 just to ...
PHIL MICKELSON
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Fra...
DAN JENKINS
Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?
PETE DYE
I just wanted some good karma, some good positive thoughts. Hey, Jack Nicklaus hit a 1-iron on the g...
PHIL MICKELSON
When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ
Tiger Woods wouldn't say that, Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say that. That probably motivated some guys. I...
DAVIS LOVE III
It's not actual golf instruction as much as it is introduction to the game of golf utilizing props a...
TOM CUNNINGHAM
Golf is a cruel game.
GRAEME MCDOWELL
Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the small...
GENE LITTLER
I just have to keep in close contact with our captain, Jack Nicklaus, and let him know how I'm feeli...
JIM FURYK
I would say with the technology we have today, with the equipment, if you put that in Jack Nicklaus ...
GREG NORMAN
Sometimes we come out here and they say it's not a golf game it's a golf adventure.
CUSTIS WRIGHT
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
ARNOLD PALMER
The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
PARKER POSEY
Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONES
Golf is a better game played downhill.
JACK NICKLAUS
Life is a game but golf is serious.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I just played pretty steady. This golf course is a difficult golf course so if you just hit fairways...
AUSTIN III
I just played pretty steady. This golf course is a difficult golf course so if you just hit fairways...
AUSTIN EATON III
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The first time I saw Jack Nicklau...
GARY PLAYER
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulder...
TOM LANDRY
Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.
BILLY CASPER
Our thought was, who better to name a golf course than true experts: golfers. We have 13 miles of pr...
BARRY FREEDMAN
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the att...
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN
You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.
BERNHARD LANGER
Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.
HARVEY PENICK
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
JACK NICKLAUS
Golf has always been a passion for me, ... Football is a very intense sport, and golf is considered ...
LES CARTER
Public golf courses don't need a lot of lakes. All everybody does is just lose their golf ball and s...
BILL WILSHER
Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carryi...
DAN JENKINS
My golf game is lacking big time.
SAM HUNT
Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD
Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.
CHARLIE SIFFORD
Golf is a game kings and presidents play when they get tired of running countries.
CHARLES PRICE
And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA
Golf has more rules than any other game because golf has more cheaters than any other game
BRUCE LANSKY
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
GIL KANE
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON
I'm using exactly the same clubs, other than No. 4. I was brainwashed into believing it would be abn...
GARY PLAYER
If a British player isn't going to win, many of us always wanted it to be Jack Nicklaus. Apart from ...
DON GRAY
I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fa...
ARNOLD PALMER
With golf, there's no big crowds or game-winning shots. Golf is all about mental focus and pacing.
CHRISTIAN MATHEW
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a ...
BOBBY JONES
A wife can sometimes be a deterrent to a good game of golf,
EARL WOODS
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral...
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.
JOEY ADAMS
Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.
ALAN SHEARER
Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
JOE TORRE
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal ...
ALBERT MURRAY
Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian ...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL
As the game has progressed to what I consider a pure power game, this golf course still stands up. I...
FRED FUNK
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE
I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
LEE TREVINO
Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five
PAUL HARVEY
We are tremendously excited and extremely fortunate. Mr. Nicklaus has been so wonderful in the Scarl...
JIM BROWN
Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and sho...
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does ...
BRUNO WALTER
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all par...
LUKE DONALD
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho...
JACK WHITEHALL
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
JACK WHITEHALL
Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
JACK WHITEHALL
When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck te...
JACK WHITEHALL
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa...
JACK WHITEHALL
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
JACK WHITEHALL
I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ...
JACK WHITEHALL
I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
JACK WHITEHALL
When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL
I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ...
JACK WHITEHALL
I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL
I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
JACK WHITEHALL
If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ...
JACK WHITEHALL
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE