Jack Nicklaus Quotes

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.

Putting is a very personal affair.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

No putt is too short to be despised.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Self-love is a big part of golf.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

I hit the ball really well... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

Confidence is king in golf.

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?

When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.

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

I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.

Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.

I always feel my next shot is good.

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?

I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.