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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.
Jack Nicklaus
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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.
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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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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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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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Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
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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'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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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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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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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it even the best players in the world never master the game.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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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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