Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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• It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
• Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players…
• Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.
• Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.
• 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.
• You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf
• 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…
• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon
• That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making…
• 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…
• As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.
• 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…
• I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
• The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
• There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just…
• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
• 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…
• 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…

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