Jack Nicklaus Quotes

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Fortunately, I can play a lot of golf with my job.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.