Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.