Arnold Palmer Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

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

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.

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

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

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

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.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

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 like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

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

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

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

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

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

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

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.

We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

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.

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.

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

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

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

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.

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

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.

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

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

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 psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

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.

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.

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 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.

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've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

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.

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.