Jack Nicklaus Quotes

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

I've pictured winning the U.S. Open a lot of times before.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

The U.S. Open was something I loved.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

Every player wants to win the World Cup - every country wants to win the World Cup - so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won't be entirely happy if you don't win it.

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

You have to win football matches, and if you don't, you allow people to criticise you.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.