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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.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.
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Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
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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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As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.
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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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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
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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.
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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
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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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I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.
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