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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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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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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Golf is you against yourself.
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It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
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I never missed a putt in my mind.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.
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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.
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Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.
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Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
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What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
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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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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.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
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Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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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 a monumental thing about it.
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They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.
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