Arnold Palmer Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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• 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

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• Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

  Arnold Palmer

  Capacity, Concentration, Enjoyment

  Arnold Palmer (1970). “Situation golf”

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Guy, Looks, Taught

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• 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

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Years, Play

  Source: www.sportsnet.ca

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• I had a system, and the system worked.

  Arnold Palmer

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Smart, Stupid, Golf

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Dwight Eisenhower, Reeds, Masters

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Art, Fall, Golf

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Mean, Focus And Concentration, Hands

  Arnold Palmer (1970). “Situation golf”

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Technology, Years, Differences

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Thinking, People, Losing

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Past, Thinking, Talking

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Kids, Games, Needs

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Home, Golf

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Challenges, Balls

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

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• Don't be ashamed to play safe.

  Arnold Palmer

  Play, Play Safe, Safe

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Play

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  "Golf Magazine Interview: Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus". Originally ran in the May, 1994, issue of Golf Magazine, www.golf.com. April 28, 2012.

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Opponents, Palms

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Funeral, Trying

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