Arnold Palmer Quotes
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The more I practice the luckier I get.
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I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.
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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.
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I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.
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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.
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I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
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Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
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Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
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I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
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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? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
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My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.
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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
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I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
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Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.
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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.