The road to success is always under construction.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Arnold Palmer
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Arnold Palmer
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Arnold Palmer
I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I’d ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
Arnold Palmer
Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.
Arnold Palmer
I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, ‘I’m a great player,’ or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fact. They just get out and do it. And I think that’s far more appealing… than talking about how good you are.
Arnold Palmer
The more I practice the luckier I get.
Arnold Palmer
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Arnold Palmer
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn’t say where it would lead me.
Arnold Palmer
Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.
Arnold Palmer
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can’t figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.
Arnold Palmer
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
Arnold Palmer
I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you’re a kid, you’re not scared of anything.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
Arnold Palmer
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
Arnold Palmer
I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I’ve grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.
Arnold Palmer
Look at the better players of my era – Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd. They had pros they worked with from time to time, but out on Tour, thousands of miles from home, each of them learned to be his own best coach. I think Tiger can do the same.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Every day I play golf, that’s my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.
Arnold Palmer
You must play boldly to win.
Arnold Palmer
My problem happens to be near-sightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
Arnold Palmer
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
I think I’ve heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don’t dress very well.
Arnold Palmer
I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it’s been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It’s a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
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.
Arnold Palmer
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
Arnold Palmer