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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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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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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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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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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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The holes are numbered.
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Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
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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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If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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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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Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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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 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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Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
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If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.
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