Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Live not only for today, but nurse a vision, live for the future

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.