Jack Nicklaus Trying Quotations

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

I know what they're trying to do; they're trying to make it the same golf clubs that players traditionally should play into the greens. Whether they've gone overboard, I don't know. I just know they eliminated a lot of guys who don't have the ability to do that.

I know what Augusta is trying to do.

I know what Augusta is trying to do. Whether they've gone overboard, I'm not sure. But they've eliminated a lot of guys who are able to win. That's the change at Augusta I have a hard time with.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

I never thought about being No. 1. I just kept trying to be No. 1.

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do.