Jack Nicklaus was born on 21st January 1940 in Columbus, Ohio. He is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time. Nicklaus went to the Upper Arlington High School. He started playing golf at the age of 10. He also overcame a subtle case of polio when he was 13 years old. He broke the record at Scioto Country Club and became the youngest qualifier into the U.S. Junior Amateur at 13.
In 1956, he won the Ohio Open. He won almost 27 events till the time he became 17. He won the International Jaycee Junior Golf Tournament in 1957. He won the U.S. Amateur twice in 1959 and 1961 and NCAA Championship in 1961. He married Barbara bash in 1960.
In 2001, he was awarded the "Lombardi Award of Excellence'. The Jack Nicklaus Museum was opened in Ohio State as an honour to him. Nicklaus became the Global Ambassador for the International Golf Federation in 2008 and played a fundamental role in bringing golf to Olympics in 2016 and 2020. He also won the PGA Lifetime Achievement award in 2008 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2015.
He is known as The Golden Bear. Now, Nicklaus heads a major golf course design company and is a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. His book, Golf My Way is one of the most famous best-selling golf books to date.
Some of the most famous quotes by Jack Nicklaus are as follows.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.
The older one gets, the troubles in life increase. Every problem you have in life, you should face it and come out much stronger than before. Problems are a part of life, and you should always stay strong and fight against them.
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Nicklaus talks about the finest golf swing that he has experienced and ever seen in his life. He reminiscences that encounter and the fantastic swing that he has ever seen in his life.
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
One should always know the rules and regulations of the game and play the game by the rules. Those who try to escape from this and gain partial knowledge can never succeed in life. To win a game, one needs to be very specific about the rules of that game.
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Golf is one of the most challenging game of all time. Those who win only 20 times per 100 times are considered the best golfers. The level of difficulty is clear by the low amount of success rate.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
The course of the game and you can sometimes be the two absolute adversaries. One who plays nice has to invest a lot of time in practising the same. The more time you invest in enhancing your skills, the more flattering results you will get.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
One should never think of losing the game as the end of the world. It is not a war. One should enjoy and have fun while playing. It is just a game, and you should treat it like that only.
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Faults are organic. They come naturally to everyone. One should not focus on the results. Rather, one should try to find ways to overcome them. Finding remedies are much more important than finding faults.
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
The bad influences often work upon us a lot faster than the good ones. Good things take time, but bad/negativity works very fast, and we adopt it too; it's human psychology. One should always adopt good things and focus on the good side.
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
Concentration helps in fighting against anxiety. Those who are anxious should try to concentrate more. That will help you to focus on one work and stop worrying about the future.
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Failure is a part of life, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to give up. No matter what happens, what life throws at you, you should keep your headstrong and try one more time.
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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.
Those who enjoy their work give more effective results. No one can excel in something he/she is not interested in. Those who enjoy their work are interested in excelling it. They try to give their best.
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.
An optimistic approach towards everything in life can make someone achieve great things in life. A positive attitude gives positive results. Those who accept everything positively get greater results.
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
A man's real asset is his ability to concentrate and work. Concentration and hard work can help you to achieve heights. No money can buy these from you. It is the most powerful asset that you own.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
Those who want to do great things in life always find a way to do so no matter what. There is a famous saying – "where there is a will, there is a way". Those who search for ways will always find them, even in the darkness.
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
It takes up a really long time to gain confidence. With every victory, one builds up confidence. After a lot of hard work and toil, one gets confident, but only one defeat can destroy all the confidence that one has gained through the years. Failure is one of the greatest enemies of humans.
Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.
Those who come second are never remembered. Only the winners are remembered. We should always keep motivating ourselves to perform better than before every day.
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I never missed a putt in my mind.
Missing a putt is a common incident in a golf game. Those who say that they haven't missed a putt in life are liars. It is only possible to never miss a putt in mind. Never missing a put is an illusion.
The game is meant to be fun.
Competitiveness is natural, but anything too much is not good. The game is supposed to be fun. One should always try to enjoy every bit of his game. Having fun is necessary to play a game.
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
Self-satisfaction comes after a lot of struggle. When one gets satisfied, there is an added danger of the upcoming troubles and dangers. We all always try to struggle and fight for having self-satisfaction.
I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly, I don't really care.
One should always take responsibility for his actions. One should own his mistakes and the consequences of his actions. You should don't care what people say about you or how they treat you. You should not get bothered by their judgments rather you should own them.
