Jack Nicklaus Quotes
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
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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.
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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.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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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.