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Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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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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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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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.
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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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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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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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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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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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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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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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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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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.
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I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.
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I think we have more good players today [2016] than we've ever had in the game of golf. And I think that's saying a lot because we had a lot of good players when I played. I think you had a bit of a lag in there for a while, that Tiger was just so much better than everybody else that he really didn't put anybody in with him.
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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 think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.
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