Jack Nicklaus Quotes About Golf

Quotes about: Golf

• 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

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Life, Golf

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Golf, Worry

• 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

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Giving Up, Golf, Matter

  "Trump goes golfing with Jack Nicklaus, 1 day after hitting the links with Tiger Woods" by David Caplan, abcnews.go.com. November 26, 2017.

• Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Fundamentals, Stills

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Gains, Shots

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Long, Balls

• 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, Golf, Emotional

• 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

• Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Remember, Finished

  "Every picture tells a story", www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Clubs

• Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Sportsmanship

  "Arizona 20 Years: Jack Nicklaus". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

• I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' 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 this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Nice, Golf, Reality

• Golf is a better game played downhill.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Air, Years

• Golf is you against yourself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, You Again

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

  Twitter post from Apr 5, 2016

• 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 Tiger Woods can.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Player

  "Woods makes a strong showing" by Don Greenberg, www.sfgate.com. July 22, 1996.

• 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

• Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Fair Game

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

• 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

• There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Worry, Guy

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