Jack Nicklaus Quotes

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

I've done sport for a long time.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

I want to be able to show NFL teams, Whatever you need help at, I can play it.

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well.

It is impossible to play 60 games all season and be in good form all the time.

To play this position you have to have durability.

Eating the right things and doing the right things off the field are important. You see players like Ryan Giggs and Gareth Barry. If you look after yourself, you have a chance of playing a long time.