Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

- Jack Nicklaus

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the …

- Jack Nicklaus

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

- Jack Nicklaus

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

- Jack Nicklaus

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

- Jack Nicklaus

This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

- Jack Nicklaus

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

- Jack Nicklaus

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

- Jack Nicklaus

Focus on remedies, not faults.

- Jack Nicklaus