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" I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds. "
Jack Nicklaus
Feeling
Lost
Had
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" The game is meant to be fun. "
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" There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon. "
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Place
" I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery. "
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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. "
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You
" 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. "
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" People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it. "
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People
Job
Beautiful
" Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. "
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Never
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" I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble. "
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Good
Hope
" If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows. "
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Back
Ice Cream
Night
" When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control. "
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Thought
Fly
Know
" My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset. "
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Work
Ability
Greatest
" 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. "
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Better
Know
Talent
" Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part. "
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Golf
You
World
" Focus on remedies, not faults. "
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Remedies
Focus
Faults
" Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum. "
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Appearances
Down
Mine
" I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete. "
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Me
Control
Events
" Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. "
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Win
Golf
Best
" Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. "
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Traditions
Golf
Respect
" Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. "
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Concentration
Antidote
Anxiety
" 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. "
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People
Tools
Life
" 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. "
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Great
Golf
Win
" Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not. "
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Proud
Lessons
Take
" The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible. "
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Stay
Out
Best
" 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. "
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Believe
Problem
Play