Jack Nicklaus Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• 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.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Hard Work, Golf, Winning

• 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.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Fun

• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

  Twitter post from Apr 5, 2016

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Winning, Player

• The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Winning, Player

• If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Winning, Player

• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

• You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Winning, Games

• I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Confidence, Believe, Winning

• I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Two, Lasts

• 1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Years, Play

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Long, Prepared

• I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mistake, Winning, Play

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Winning, Victory

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. July 18, 2009.

• Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Player, Two

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• I was never satisfied if I didn't win a major. I mean, not that year or any major I played, I wasn't satisfied unless I won it. But that's what our goals are. I'm sure that these guys' goals are the same as mine. They want to win every time they play. If you don't win, then you're not happy, obviously.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Winning, Years

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Control Myself, Wells

• I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Stupid, Winning, Pressure

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1997). “Jack Nicklaus”, p.427, Simon and Schuster

• The most difficult thing for me is keeping yourself focused on what you're doing. As you go play, you try to get your focus and desire. You don't do it to the level you would do it if you wanted to win. You have to work at it and be on top of your game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Focus, Desire

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Swings, Balls

  Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

• I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

• I think in my case winning fans came as a result of winning tournaments. Certainly, I didn't have too many supporters when I came on Tour. I didn't look like an athlete, I was overweight, had a crew cut, baggy clothes and on top of that I didn't smile much. I was very serious about my game, literally and figuratively the heavy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Cutting, Winning

  Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Kids, Golf

• Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Sea, Trying

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