Arnold Palmer Quotes

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.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

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.

The more I practice the luckier I get.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

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.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

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.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

Know how to win by following the rules

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.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

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.

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

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.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

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.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

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 am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

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.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

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.

I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

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.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

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.

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

You must play boldly to win.

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

I had a system, and the system worked.

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.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

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.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.