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Golf is you against yourself.

Jack Nicklaus

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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
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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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If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.
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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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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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He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like Tiger Woods can.
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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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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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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.
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I never missed a putt in my mind.
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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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Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
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This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
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Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.
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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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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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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
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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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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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