Dan Jenkins Quotes

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Always being champion, always being at the top every three days, playing great football - it's not that easy.

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

In order to be great in this game, you have to be good for a really long time, and to be good, you have to constantly win.

I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.

I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack's 18 majors, but what can't be argued is this: Tiger Woods is the most dominant, most skilled player we've ever seen.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

I don't think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.

I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.

Only when I saw I could be the first one to win five world cup races in a row did I get some extra motivation to go for it. And after winning five, I said to myself, 'Why not win them all?' The icing on the cake was the World Championship at the end.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

I need to play well in the majors; that's been my key. That's been something that I've created a pattern in the majors, and I just need to keep improving.

I've never seen and nor do I think I will ever see someone with Messi's consistency.

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.

Phil [Mickelson] has done a great job. He's a great player and he's conducted himself very well through the years. He's been a good ambassador for the game. He hasn't won in a while, but he still has time, and it wouldn't surprise me if he won again.

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.