Jack Nicklaus Quotes

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.

Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.

I want to be the best at what I do when I go out to play golf, and so when I was building my house, I wanted the best.

Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.

I'm a perfectionist and I always want to do the best as possible.

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want more and better for myself.

I got to live through the Tiger Woods era and who knows who's still to come.

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'

I'm the type of personality who just can't settle for less.

I've always expected a lot out of myself, and it can be a good quality. But it can be bad at times, too.

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

I am incapable of mediocrity.