Arnold Palmer Quotes - Page 2

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

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

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

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.

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.

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

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.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

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.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

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.

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

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.

Know how to win by following the rules

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

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.

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.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

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.

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