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If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer, I'd never had beaten him.
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Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
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Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
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Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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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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If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.
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This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
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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.
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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've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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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.
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You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.
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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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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 was going to make money.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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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.
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