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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen. -- Dan Jenkins
I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer. -- Molly Sims
I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus. -- Tim Finchem
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything. -- Johnny Miller
I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying. -- Tiger Woods
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54. -- Bill Shoemaker
The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game. -- Tim Finchem
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years. -- Dan Jenkins
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me. -- Greg Rusedski
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists. -- Dan Jenkins
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. -- Lee Trevino
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower. -- Dan Jenkins
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There's only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address. -- Lee Trevino
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus. -- Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything. -- Johnny Miller
Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do. -- Paul Harvey
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. -- Bobby Jones
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough... -- Action Bronson
If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio. -- Lee Trevino
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. -- Gary Player
If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus -- Lee Trevino
Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder. -- Bruce Lansky
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind. -- Thomas Boswell
Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television. -- Donald Trump
I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived. -- Jack Nicklaus

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