A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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

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 Quote

Focus on remedies, not faults.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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 Quote

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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

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 Quote

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

The game is meant to be fun.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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

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.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
- Jack Nicklaus Quote

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