Arnold Palmer

American professional golfer

Arnold Palmer quotes


 
Arnold Palmer quotes
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
- Arnold Palmer
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer
- Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer quotes
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
- Arnold Palmer
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
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.
- Arnold Palmer
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.
- Arnold Palmer
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
It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
- Arnold Palmer
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.
- Arnold Palmer
Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.
- Arnold Palmer
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.
- Arnold Palmer
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
- Arnold Palmer
I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.
- Arnold Palmer
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer
I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.
- Arnold Palmer
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.
- Arnold Palmer
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
- Arnold Palmer
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
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
- Arnold Palmer
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
- Arnold Palmer
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
- Arnold Palmer
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