Arnold Palmer
Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Children
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Lying
Know how to win by following the rulesCollection: Winning
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.Collection: Golf
Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.Collection: Golf
I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Sports
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.Collection: Father
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.Collection: Golf
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.Collection: Work Ethic
Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.Collection: Saving
I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.Collection: Hurt
Don't be ashamed to play safe.Collection: Play
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 his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.Collection: Sports
I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.Collection: Country
I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.Collection: Golf
Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.Collection: 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.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Golf
I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.Collection: Golf
Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.Collection: Fun
I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.Collection: Player
Swing your swing. I know, I did.Collection: Swings
There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.Collection: Golf
All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.Collection: Golf
One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.Collection: Golf
I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.Collection: Cancer
I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.Collection: Mom
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.Collection: Golf
I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.Collection: Years
As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.Collection: Fun
Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.Collection: Sleep
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.Collection: Golf
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.Collection: Dwight Eisenhower
When I was growing up, they had just found radio.Collection: Growing Up
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.Collection: Men
The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.Collection: Games
A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.Collection: Golf
Many people don't know that I experienced a blood clot caused by deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, which is when a blood clot forms in a deep vein in the body, often the leg or thigh. I'm fortunate that my DVT was diagnosed and treated before it led to something even more serious and that's why I encourage people to talk to their doctor if they think something is wrong. I've teamed up with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness about blood clot prevention and treatment.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Cancer
I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.Collection: School
Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.Collection: Philosophy