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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 isn't.
Jack Nicklaus
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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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Jack William Nicklaus
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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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I love the golf courses because it brought the best out of me. It made me prepare, made me work at it, made me do the things I needed to do to be better, and that's what I loved about USGA events. If you couldn't handle it, then you got beat, and that's OK.
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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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I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
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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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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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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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We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.
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Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.
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The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is playing badly well. All the true greats have been masters at it.
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I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.
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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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