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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.
— Jack Nicklaus
Golf is a better game played downhill.
— Jack Nicklaus
This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
— Jack Nicklaus
I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.
— Jack Nicklaus
Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.
— Jack Nicklaus
In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
— Jack Nicklaus
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
— Jack Nicklaus
I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
— Jack Nicklaus
Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.
— Lee Trevino
If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.
— Lee Trevino
My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind — Jack Nicklaus
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind — Jack Nicklaus
The holes are numbered.
— Jack Nicklaus
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
— Jack Nicklaus
I guess that's why they call it Hell.
— Jack Nicklaus
Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.
— Jack Nicklaus
Golf is a game of precision, not strength.
— Jack Nicklaus
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
— Jack Nicklaus
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.
— Jack Nicklaus
It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
— Jack Nicklaus
Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.
— Jack Nicklaus
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.
— Jack Nicklaus
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
— Jack Nicklaus
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
— Jack Nicklaus
Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
— Jack Nicklaus
When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.
— Johnny Miller
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
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
— Jack Nicklaus
I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.
— Jack Nicklaus
I'm tired of giving my best and not having it be good enough.
— Jack Nicklaus
Pressure is what you live for ... if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.
— Jack Nicklaus
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
— Jack Nicklaus
Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.
— Jack Nicklaus
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.
— Jack Nicklaus
I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
— Jack Nicklaus
I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.
— Jack Nicklaus
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
— Jack Nicklaus
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
— Jack Nicklaus
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
— Jack Nicklaus
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
Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.
— Jack Nicklaus
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
— Jack Nicklaus
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.
— Jack Nicklaus
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
As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.
— Jack Nicklaus
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
— Jack Nicklaus
We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.
— Jack Nicklaus
This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
— Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
— Jack Nicklaus
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
— Jack Nicklaus
Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
— Jack Nicklaus
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
— Dan Jenkins
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
— Jack Nicklaus
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
— Jack Nicklaus
I never missed a putt in my mind.
— Jack Nicklaus
I can barely turn on my computer!
— Jack Nicklaus
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
— Jack Nicklaus
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf
— Jack Nicklaus
Golf is you against yourself.
— Jack Nicklaus
Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
— Jack Nicklaus
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
— Jack Nicklaus
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.
— Jack Nicklaus
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
— Jack Nicklaus
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
— Jack Nicklaus
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
— Jack Nicklaus
Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.
— Jack Nicklaus
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
— Jack Nicklaus
Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.
— Jack Nicklaus
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
— Jack Nicklaus
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
— Jack Nicklaus
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course,
Porsche with the triple exhaust,
Seats soft like a midget's cough ... — Action Bronson
Porsche with the triple exhaust,
Seats soft like a midget's cough ... — Action Bronson
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
— Jack Nicklaus
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
— Jack Nicklaus
I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.
— Jack Nicklaus
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
— Jack Nicklaus
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
— Jack Nicklaus
Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.
— Jack Nicklaus