All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

I understand golf is a game, and I've never treated it as anything else. Family is something that's very special, and so they all contributed to the room. They all contributed to what my life was, my career was.