Jim Nantz Quotes

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

There have been great champions in every generation.

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.

For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to question her title by merit to rule. Rather, the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours.

Teachers, you are the shapers of thought and the molders of sentiment, not of this age and of this generation alone, but of ages and generations to come.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.

It would take me 10 lifetimes to achieve even half of what Wilberforce achieved.

Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.

I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.