Arnold Palmer Quotes

American - Athlete September 10, 1929 - September 25, 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.

Me Effort Win Chance

The road to success is always under construction.

Success Road Construction Always

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.

Simple Time Soul Game

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Confidence Hunger Out Concentration

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

Good Sports Art Poetry

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

Win Chance Quit Never

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Simple Golf Complicated Endlessly

As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don't need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.' And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.

Good Father Home Me

The more I practice the luckier I get.

Practice More Get Luckier

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

Life Look You Done

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

Me Glasses Judge Distance

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Confidence Enjoyment Concentration

You must play boldly to win.

You Win Play Must

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Game Golf Will Off

I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

Hope Game Body Long

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Search Never Things Touch

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.

Yourself Challenge You Reach

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

Winning Everything Wanting

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

Strength Success Character Mind

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.

Business You Body Want

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

Opportunity King Game Golf

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Father Time Me Game

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

Feel Important Golf Most

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.

People Poverty Golf Forget

The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is rewarded in a climax that I, and most golfers, will never experience.

Experience Step Dedication Pride

We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack's 18 majors, but what can't be argued is this: Tiger Woods is the most dominant, most skilled player we've ever seen.

Tiger Woods Will Seen

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