Top 100 Arnold Palmer Quotes
#1. I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
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#2. I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.
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#3. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.
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#4. Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
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#5. I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,
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#7. The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.
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#8. You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.
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#9. Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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#10. Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.
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#11. I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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#12. I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#17. I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
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#18. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
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#19. I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
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#20. I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
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#21. There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.
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#22. When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
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#23. I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.
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#24. First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
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#26. Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.
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#27. 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.
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#28. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.
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#29. I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
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#30. The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
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#31. I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.
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#33. One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
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#34. I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.
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#35. Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.
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#37. I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.
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#38. I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun.
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#39. To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.
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#40. I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
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#41. 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.
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#43. I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.
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#44. All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.
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#45. Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.
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#48. Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
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#49. Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.
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#50. Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.
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#51. I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
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#52. I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.
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#53. A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.
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#54. Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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#55. 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.
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#56. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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#57. I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
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#58. My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
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#59. What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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#61. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.
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#64. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
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#65. I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
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#69. I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.
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#70. You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
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#71. I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.
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#72. My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
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#73. 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.
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#74. If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
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#75. Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.
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#76. If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
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#77. I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,
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#78. 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.
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#79. I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
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#80. Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
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#81. Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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#82. To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.
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#83. I enjoy the press. I understand their business.
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#84. Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.
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#85. I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.
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#86. Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
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#87. Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
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#88. The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
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#89. Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.
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#90. I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.
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#91. I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.
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#92. Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
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#93. I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.
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#94. When I was growing up, they had just found radio.
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#95. I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.
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#99. I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
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#100. I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.
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