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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
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Golf is you against yourself.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.
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It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
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My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.
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I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.
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Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.
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The holes are numbered.
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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.
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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 that's not right. I probably have forgotten more about golf than I will ever learn. What you do is remember some of the things you thought you would never forget.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.
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Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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