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The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

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 don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.
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Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.
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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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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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Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
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This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
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You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
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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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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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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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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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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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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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Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.
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Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I guess that's why they call it Hell.
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