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. Jack Nicklaus More Quotes by Jack Nicklaus More Quotes From Jack Nicklaus A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Jack Nicklaus growing-up golf kids Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method. Jack Nicklaus method relief pain There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity. Jack Nicklaus emotional golf sports 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. Jack Nicklaus athlete player games There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. Jack Nicklaus mind rooms negative Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not. Jack Nicklaus lessons proud golf Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. Jack Nicklaus winning golf sports Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental. Jack Nicklaus stills fundamentals golf 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. Jack Nicklaus play golf trying If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy. Jack Nicklaus i-have-learned golf years Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports. Jack Nicklaus differences golf sports Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. Jack Nicklaus smugness fighting struggle Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. Jack Nicklaus athlete worry golf 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. Jack Nicklaus games play golf I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it. Jack Nicklaus winning play mistake You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf Jack Nicklaus passion golf commitment He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better. Jack Nicklaus dedication get-better sports In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't. Jack Nicklaus bad-years years We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play. Jack Nicklaus hard-work winning golf I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete. Jack Nicklaus wells events player
