Quotes from Jack Nicklaus

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

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

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

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

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

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

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

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

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

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.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

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 he can.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety." - Jack Nicklaus

relatively wide stance—about the width of my shoulders between my heels—and gradually narrow it as the clubs shorten and the swing force decreases, to probably only 6 inches with the wedge. I effect this narrowing simply by moving the right foot closer to the left. In that way I maintain a constant relationship of the ball to my left heel. As I narrow my stance, I also "open" it by setting my left foot

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