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Jack Nicklaus
January 21, 1940 -
Nationality: American
Category: Athlete
Subcategory: American Athlete

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

   

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.

   

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

   

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

   

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

   

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

   

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

   

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

   

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.

   

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

   

Golf is a better game played downhill.

   

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

   

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

   

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.

   

The game is meant to be fun.

   

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

   

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

   

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

   

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

   

Focus on remedies, not faults.

   

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