Jack Nicklaus

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.