Jack Nicklaus Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

  FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

• 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

• 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

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Sports, Goal

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Clubs

• 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

• 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

  Sports, Believe, Play

• The game is meant to be fun.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Fun, Games

  Twitter post from May 3, 2016

• 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.

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Winning, Player

• Before every shot, I go to the movies

  Jack Nicklaus

  Motivational, Sports, Creative Visualization

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

• Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Men

• I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

• The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

• 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

  Sports, Selfish, Sound

• 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

  Sports, Dedication, Get Better

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, War, Games

• I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Years, Fishing

• What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Athlete, Golf

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Kids, Golf

• You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Fun, Nice

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Differences

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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