Arnold Palmer Quotes
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I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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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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Critics who have said a safer shot here or there would undoubtedly have won me a few more tournaments are probably correct. Going for the green in two was who I was as a boy - and it's who I remain as a man.
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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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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
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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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Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
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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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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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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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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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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
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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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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 am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.
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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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I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.