Top 100 Quotes About Arnold Palmer
#1. There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
#2. Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it.
Carl Hiaasen
#3. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#4. I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.
Jack Nicklaus
#5. I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
Dan Jenkins
#6. My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
Nancy Lopez
#7. Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.
Charlie Rose
#8. Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
Byron Nelson
#9. The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus
#10. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
Sandy Koufax
#11. The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
Gary Player
#12. If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
Bobby Jones
#13. I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
Jack Nicklaus
#14. I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.
Mike Greenberg
#15. Happy birthday to Arnold Palmer, who turned 82. That's 41 years iced tea and 41 years lemonade.
Jimmy Fallon
#16. Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
Bob Hope
#17. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus
#18. I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
Lee Trevino
#19. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Arnold Palmer
#20. I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
Arnold Palmer
#21. I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.
Arnold Palmer
#22. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#23. Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
Arnold Palmer
#24. 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,
Arnold Palmer
#26. The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.
Arnold Palmer
#27. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#28. Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
Arnold Palmer
#29. Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.
Arnold Palmer
#30. I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
Arnold Palmer
#31. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#32. I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
Arnold Palmer
#33. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#34. I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.
Arnold Palmer
#35. We just became very good friends [ with Dwight Eisenhower ], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.
Arnold Palmer
#36. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#39. I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
Arnold Palmer
#40. I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
Arnold Palmer
#41. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
#42. I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
#43. If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.
Arnold Palmer
#44. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#45. That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!
Arnold Palmer
#46. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#47. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#48. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#49. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#50. First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
Arnold Palmer
#52. Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Arnold Palmer
#53. Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.
Arnold Palmer
#54. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#55. I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
Arnold Palmer
#56. When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.
Arnold Palmer
#57. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#58. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#59. The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer
#60. I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.
Arnold Palmer
#61. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#63. One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
Arnold Palmer
#64. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#65. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#67. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#68. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#69. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#70. An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
Arnold Palmer
#71. I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
Arnold Palmer
#72. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#74. What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
Arnold Palmer
#75. I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.
Arnold Palmer
#76. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#77. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#78. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#79. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#80. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#81. Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
Arnold Palmer
#82. Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.
Arnold Palmer
#83. Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.
Arnold Palmer
#84. Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
Arnold Palmer
#85. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#86. I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
Arnold Palmer
#87. I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.
Arnold Palmer
#88. The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer
#89. If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.
Arnold Palmer
#90. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#91. Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
#92. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#93. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#94. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#95. My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
Arnold Palmer
#96. What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
#98. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#99. 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.
Arnold Palmer
#100. I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.
Arnold Palmer
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