Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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Jack Nicklaus

Profession : Golfer

Birth : January 21, 1940

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Jack Nicklaus

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Jack Nicklaus

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicklaus

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.

Jack Nicklaus

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Jack Nicklaus

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Jack Nicklaus

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.

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.

Jack Nicklaus

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

Jack Nicklaus

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Jack Nicklaus

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

Jack Nicklaus

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Jack Nicklaus

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Jack Nicklaus

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

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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Jack Nicklaus

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Jack Nicklaus

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

Jack Nicklaus