Best 129 quotes of Arnold Palmer on MyQuotes

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

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.

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

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.

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.

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

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

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.

[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.

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.

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

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

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.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

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

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

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

I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

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

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