370 Quotes by Jack Nicklaus
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best.
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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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Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you’re going to make it because you’ve done it time and time again.
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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.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I’ll be gone and I pack day for day. If I’m going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I’m going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they’re going to do once they’ve made up their mind to do it, and by God they don’t look sideways.
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I’m deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.
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I’ve never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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