Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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• 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.…
• Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
• It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
• Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
• 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…
• 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…
• The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.
• That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day…
• When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.
• 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…
• Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.
• Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.
• If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.
• I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
• There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No…
• If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.
• I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.
• I guess that's why they call it Hell.
• 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.…

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