Arnold Palmer Quotes (44 Quotes)


    I'll tell you how optimistic I am I've been married less than a year, and I'm building my wife a new house, ... She's putting in all these things to keep me going, and rocking chairs are one of them. But I'm not going to use them for a while.

    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.

    Between now and 35 could be the absolute best years of his life. It would be very easy for that to happen, meaning that he could double or triple what he has done in the past.

    Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

    Hell of a question, simply because of the length they have to drive it to get into the position to play the shots.


    Hell, who knows ... Maybe even my golf swing will get better.

    Certainly the fact that Disney came enhanced what was happening. But what would it have been if Disney hadn't come That's a big question.

    Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

    It has been a matter of great pride for me when my name was placed on an entity of one sort or another over the years, but I can't think of anything that brings me more pleasure and satisfaction than having it on the tournament that has meant so much to me for so long.

    I wanted to make that putt more than I wanted to eat.


    THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think that you dare not, you don't, If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, It's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world you'll fi.

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

    I'm looking forward to the dinner, that's why I'm here. I miss driving down Magnolia Lane and not having my clubs ready to play, but that's the way it is now.

    I suppose you could really say that. Tiger won the Masters last year, Phil won this year, and Phil won two years ago. It certainly has potential for a pretty good rivalry. I think it will create a lot of interest in the Masters.

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

    Sex, ... Golf excites me. My life. My wife. All the things that I do. Every day, I'm endeavoring on something different, something new. It's fun. It's challenging.

    I was surprised. I asked the chairman, who's a friend of mine, 'What are you going to do about the people Those fans are what make Augusta great.' 'Well, we can't make everybody happy.' That's what he said. Well, that affects me, and my thoughts about it.

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

    He didn't have the speed of Tiger Woods coming through the ball, but he made good contact, and he hit the ball very well up until he couldn't play anymore.

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

    I watch (Weir) a lot, it's not too far from normal after having a couple of good years, and really playing very well,

    I'm not objectionable to it. In the beginning, we tried to do some extra stuff to make it attractive to the players, but now the indication is the guys want to come in on Tuesday night and play Wednesday in the pro-am as their practice round.

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

    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 -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

    I felt pretty good about it, and of course it was the kicking off point for the rest of my career.

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

    I don't know why they would be nervous around me, ... They way they hit the ball, I got intimidated. They hit it so far it was unreal. It was fun. They're good young players. They knocked the dirt out of that thing.

    I love the place, but now I'm not so sure. There are some things that are taking the realistic Augusta away. It's changed dramatically from the course I've known the last 50 years.

    If there's an event, and something would happen where I thought I could enhance an event and play some kind of reasonable golf, I might do it, ... But I do not have any plans and am not making any plans at this point.

    Sam has displayed his talent through the past couple of years and this is an opportunity for a young man to get out and get some experience in the game that might not otherwise come his way. We, we'll see how he does with the big boys. I think that will be great.


    Peter and I have been good friends for a long time and we've played a lot of golf together, in competition and otherwise. It's a relationship that has been ongoing for many, many years and once again, to have the opportunity to play as we will, it's going to be fun. I just hope I can keep him from being embarrassed by my poor golf.

    I like the new format because it's a good blend of the older and younger guys out here. We had a hard time getting into a rhythm, but we still had our chances at the end. It was disappointing in some ways, but I still had a good time.

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

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

    A golfer has to have mixed feelings about shooting his or her age. It's an exciting day when and if it happens, but it also means that you have to be up in years.

    I look forward to playing, and I enjoy the guys, ... But I'm not happy about the scores I'm shooting. I feel like I'm not devoting enough of my time to making my game better. I'm just like all the people out in the gallery watching this tournament. I never quite think that I won't be able to improve. I always feel like tomorrow I will find that secret to get me back to where I was 30 or 40 years ago.

    I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

    The fact is the Berger Foundation has afford us the opportunity to do this. You can't beat it. This is something that, I think as far as golf and golf-related things are concerned, this is the kind of thing that should happen more and more, and particularly in cities where they have golf tournaments such as this.

    It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

    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.

    Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

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


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