Arnold Palmer Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.
Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.
I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it.
I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.
My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.
I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.
Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.
I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.
My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.
Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.
If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much ... I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.