Jack Nicklaus famous quotes

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

#Positive #Expectations #Achievement

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

#Golf #Lessons #Proud

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

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

#Growing Up #Kids #Golf

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Practice #Focus #Vision

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

#Giving Up #Golf #Matter

Focus on remedies, not faults.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Inspirational #Life #Golf

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Athlete #Golf #Worry

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

#Life #Motivational #Sports

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Struggle #Fighting #Complacency

I never missed a putt in my mind.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Mind

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Games #Fair Game

I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Care

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Beach #Play #World

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Gains #Shots

Golf is a better game played downhill.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Games

I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Games #Play

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Iceland #Play

The game is meant to be fun.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Fun #Games

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Player #Long

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Smart #Stupid #Golf

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Remember

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Games #Precision

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

#Art #Golf #Masters

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy
-- Jack Nicklaus

#People #Enjoy

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

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Long #Balls

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.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Years #I Have Learned

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

#Fun #Athlete #Winning

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

#Golf #Games #Sportsmanship

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Fundamentals #Stills

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Golf #Clubs

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Emotional #Assessment

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Inspirational #Sports #Goal

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Games #Band #Fundamentals

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Way #Trouble

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Fishing #Horizon #Fisherman

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Mind #Negative #Rooms

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

#Player #Events #Wells

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Golf #Air #Years

Before every shot, I go to the movies
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Shots

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Fall #Mean #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

#Sports #People #Theory

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Winning #Player #Play