That is the best I have seen Tiger swing -- perhaps ever.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

You could do it either way you want to do it, ... I could have 20 and Tiger could have 13. I mean, I don't care. But I can't imagine that anybody would have thought of the U.S. Amateur being a major in the last 10 or 15 years. Forty years ago, they still looked at it that way.

[His best player, Tiger Woods, walked the fairway with a bag of ice pressed against his back. What Nicklaus figured would be his best tandem was getting hammered again. And as he stood on the ninth tee and gazed at the scoreboard, the Americans were ahead in only one of the six matches.] When that last group went through, if you gave me 3-3, I would have given you 10-1 [odds], ... I would have been very, very pleased. As the afternoon went on, I was kind of disappointed it ended up 3-3.

I told Tiger that he is more than welcome. He may choose to come to The Bear's Club, and he may choose not to come here ... may not want to feel like he's imposing on my situation while he's trying to break my record. He's certainly been invited.

When Tiger was on the team in Australia (at the 1998 Presidents Cup), he rode on the bus with everybody else, he was at every meeting, he had dinner with everybody every night. He was a perfect team member. I've got great respect for Tiger and I see nothing else coming from him other than what I saw in Australia.