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• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
  • On winning his 70th PGA tournament, WINS Radio (May 28, 1984)

• The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face.
  • International Herald Tribune (Paris, February 28, 1990)

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• 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.

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

• 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.

• I'm a firm believer 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.

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

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

About Jack Nicklaus

• I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived.
  • Gary Player (golfer) in Golf Digest, Dec, 2002.http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi m0HFI/is 12 53/ai 94406255