Jack Nicklaus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.”

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.”

“Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.”

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

“Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.”

“A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.”

“All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.”

“Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.”

“Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.”

“He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.”