Arnold Palmer Quotes About Golf

Quotes about: Golf

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Graduation, Inspiration, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016
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  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

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Funny, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

• Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

• 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

  Sports, Golf, Simple

• I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

  Arnold Palmer

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

• 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

  Golf, Games, Giving

  Source: www.hearingloss.ca

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Wisdom, Golf, Natural Gifts

• 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

  Heart, Bad Day, Golf

• 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

  Country, Spring, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer" by Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

• 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

  Golf, Simple, Feet

• [Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Chips, Worst

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Teamwork, Believe, Character

• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Want, Affair

• Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Self Improvement

• If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Smart, Stupid, Golf

• 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

  Fun, Moving, Golf

• One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Water, Balls

• I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.

  Arnold Palmer

  Morning, Cutting, Golf

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Player, Emotional

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