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Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus
American Athlete
Born: Jan 21, 1940
Game Golf Me Win Work You
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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. Jack Nicklaus
Horizon New Always Go Fisherman Fishing New Place New Places Any Place Places
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
Beautiful Good Day People Try Job Enjoy Think Good Lord Our Destroying Out Given Take Environment Picnic Beautiful Place Without Lord Go Dump Expand Want Place Us Enhance
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. Jack Nicklaus
Game Respect Rules Sportsmanship Traditions Golf
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. Jack Nicklaus
Time Best You Win Only Sport Where Golf Professional
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. Jack Nicklaus
Matter Situation Resolve Give Never Up Quit
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. Jack Nicklaus
Me Rival Had Well Biggest Career
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well. Jack Nicklaus
Big Out No Idea Guys Part Badly Tournaments Idea Well Course Ball How Go Lot Won Hit Big Part Manage Hitting Managing Golf Golf Ball Golf Course Your Many Swing
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion. Jack Nicklaus
Good Passion Occasionally Might Cook Good Cook
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. Jack Nicklaus
Work Day Long Few Gone Way Plot Trip Three-Day Put Bag Days Look Most Courses How Fishing Going Golf Golf Courses Pack Little Each Each Day
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset. Jack Nicklaus
Work Has-Been Ability Toward Concentrate Greatest Greatest Asset Been Goal Asset
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
Me Events Control Watson Only Could Well Arnold Arnold Palmer Lee Person Going Prepare Tom Play Gary Compete Palmer Player
And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world. Jack Nicklaus
World Constantly Course Courses Around Designing
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
Today Sometimes Walk Everybody Side Everything Some Perfectionist Wrong Wrong Side Days Like Knows Bed Gotten Up Office Get Done Short Organized
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
Hope Good You Yourself Trouble Luck Believe Bad Find Through Sure Ball Where Golf Anyway Hole Serious Round Pull Position
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is. Jack Nicklaus
Life Face Everybody Crises Crisis Part Make Any Difference Them
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicklaus
You Up Jack Jack Nicklaus Golf Hard Standards Play Play Golf
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
Better Try Dedication Comprehend Had He Talent Know Learn How Doing Lot Get Much Organized
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke. Jack Nicklaus
Big Club Fluke Perfectly Straight Shot
This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war. Jack Nicklaus
War Game
I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about. Jack Nicklaus
Win About Like Trying Golf
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks. Jack Nicklaus
Game Stinks Golf Golf Game
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning. Jack Nicklaus
You Better Better Chance Winning Better Player Longer Play Player Chance
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. Jack Nicklaus
Myself Win Control Properly Had Put Well Then Prepared Played Position
Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green. Jack Nicklaus
You Space Giving Think Side Right Side Philosophy Angle Put Well Fairway Course Off Up Green Ended Same Getting Grew Golf Golf Course Bobby Right Tee
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. Jack Nicklaus
Work Me Club Design Back Introduced He Columbus Course Came Ohio Dye Golf Golf Club Golf Course Hometown
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
Three Back Bites Weakness Sloppy Only Lax Take Put Sneak Get Refrigerator Where Ice Ice Cream Cream Shows Butter Night Two
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