Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

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.

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

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.