Jack Nicklaus Quotes

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

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.

The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

Before every shot, I go to the movies

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

And I think before I was so focused on speed or I was so focused on trying to hit this great putt that I just wasn't reacting to what I was doing. I react when I hit an iron shot, why can't I do that when I'm over the putter?

When you envision something in your head over and over again, it's like a movie placing you in that position, and once you are there you're ready.