Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Positive, Positivity, Expectations

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

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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.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Games, Two

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Giving Up, Golf, Matter

  "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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• Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

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  Passionate, Path, Pursue

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• Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

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  Dedication, Important, Talent

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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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  Inspirational, Practice, Focus

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2016

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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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  Art, Golf, Masters

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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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  Life, Motivational, Sports

  FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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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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  Golf, Gains, Shots

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• Focus on remedies, not faults.

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  Inspirational, Life, Golf

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Sports, People, Theory

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• 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

  Sports, Believe, Play

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• Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

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  Golf, Strategy, Lost

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• Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

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  Confidence, Believe, Winning

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• Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

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  Successful, Pressure, Being Successful

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• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.

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  Mind, Negative, Rooms

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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. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

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  Nice, Golf, Reality

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• If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

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  Honesty, Golf, Demand

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

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  Golf, Games, Fair Game

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

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  Golf, Lessons, Proud

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• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Goal

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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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  Growing Up, Kids, Golf

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• Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Smugness

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• If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

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  Golf, Want, Ifs

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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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  Golf, Years, I Have Learned

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