Jack Nicklaus Quotes

My whole family growing up played sports, so I'm definitely from a strong sporting background.

My sister plays for PSG. My brother played, too, but not professionally. So I had no choice!

My dad played football - and tennis as well - and so did my brothers. My dad was chairman of our local club, Spartans, for a while. But back when I was a boy, people didn't think of football as a career.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.

I used to play everything, but people in my village said football is in my blood because my father has been a footballer.

My dad wanted to have a son, and then he ended up with my sister and I, so from the time we could walk, we were constantly playing sports.

In my family no-one did high level sports at all.

I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.

And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.

Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.