When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
He had a lot of talent, but didn’t have much dedication, wasn’t organized, didn’t know how to learn, didn’t know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn’t try to learn how to get better.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Talent
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Perseverance, Golf, Persistence
Golf is not and never has been a fair game.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
Golf is a better game played downhill.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Concentration
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.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
Golf is a game of precision, not strength
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Aging, Age
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
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
Topics: Enjoyment
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball 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 a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Imagination
I like trying to win. That’s what golf is all about.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf, One liners
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
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
Topics: Confidence
Focus on remedies, not faults.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Focus, Golf
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
—Jack Nicklaus
I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Learn
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Motivation
Tee your ball high…the air offers less resistance than dirt
—Jack Nicklaus
Topics: Golf
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