Jack Nicklaus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.”
-- Jack NicklausSource : Jack Nicklaus (1998). “Jack Nicklaus: My Story”, Simon & Schuster
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“Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.”
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“We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.”
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“A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.”
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“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.”
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“Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.”
-- Jack NicklausSource : "Trump goes golfing with Jack Nicklaus, 1 day after hitting the links with Tiger Woods" by David Caplan, abcnews.go.com. November 26, 2017.
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“Focus on remedies, not faults.”
-- Jack NicklausSource : Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
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“Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.”
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“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”
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“Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.”
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“Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.”
-- Jack NicklausSource : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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“I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.”
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“If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.”
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“It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.”
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“I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.”
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“Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.”
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“He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.”
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“Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.”
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“Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.”
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“Golf is a game of precision, not strength.”
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“The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.”
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“People only do their best at things they truly enjoy”
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“Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.”
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“When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.”
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“If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.”
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“It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.”
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“Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.”
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