"As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it."

“To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.”

“Coach was going to make us do striders today, but I talked him out of it”

“It's so important to do something every day that will make you happy”

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

“I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.”

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.”

Source : Jack Nicklaus (1998). “Jack Nicklaus: My Story”, Simon & Schuster

“When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”