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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 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 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 Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order ...
DAN JENKINS Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjo...
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ I play some golf, but softball is what really gets me going. Golf is an individual sport where softb...
HAROLD BROWN Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
WILLIE GEIST Jack [Nicklaus]'s got to start thinking about when it is time to retire.
KEN VENTURI This acquisition not only gives Time Inc. the best URL in golf, but also an unprecedented offering o...
JOHN SQUIRES It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
DAN JENKINS 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 To win here where Jack Nicklaus has won a couple of times, I touched his plaque there on 18 just to ...
PHIL MICKELSON When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ Go get 'em, John. Jack Nicklaus.
LANNY WADKINS The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired fr...
GREG RUSEDSKI The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
August 15, 2016
PETRA HERMANS 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 The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in...
DEYTH BANGER I don't know of any sport where the home field, or course, is more valuable than golf.
BILL LEAGUE Obviously, we were playing for Jack Nicklaus this week after the kind of year he's had,
DAVIS LOVE III Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I would say with the technology we have today, with the equipment, if you put that in Jack Nicklaus ...
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UFUOMA APOKI Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.
MOLLY SIMS Golf is 90% mental, the other 10% is between you ears
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, ...
SPIRO T. AGNEW I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.
JOHNNY MILLER until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The first time I saw Jack Nicklau...
GARY PLAYER The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.
TIM FINCHEM It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh. If the teacher ...
APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont...
APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff...
ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr...
APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying.
APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
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JACK NICKLAUS I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted
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JACK NICKLAUS Angelo was known for his ... gray afro, but he should also be known for being an excellent caddie.
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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 ...
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