Jack Nicklaus Quotes

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

I don't play golf for fame.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

It's cool now to play golf.

I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.

'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.

I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.

I grew up in Finland, so it's cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.