Top 10 Most Famous Arnold Palmer Quotes (BEST)
20 Thought-Provoking Arnold Palmer Quotes About Playing Golf
“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 think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.”
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
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
“I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don’t really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.”
Arnold Palmer
“I tended to be perfectly comfortable hitting shots from places where no other golfer ever wanted to be. It turned out to be an important lesson about the game: you’ve got to learn to live with trouble, and you’ve got to learn how to get out of it.”
Arnold Palmer
“The four-round, stroke-play format remains the ultimate individual test in golf, but there is certainly more room for team events at the professional level. Team golf brings added drama, which in turn attracts crowds and TV audiences, and that is what golf needs today as it competes against so many other sports and activities for people’s time and attention.”
Arnold Palmer
“I was delighted to see golf make such a successful return to the Olympics. I would have jumped at the opportunity to compete for Olympic gold (and if the IOC opts for an over-80s section I’m in!).”
Arnold Palmer
“I entered the 1960 [British] Open Championship primarily because I did not feel you could ever call yourself a great champion if you didn’t play internationally, and particularly in the Open Championship.”
Arnold Palmer
10 Wise Arnold Palmer Quotes
“I’ve learned the great value of diplomacy and seeking an honorable peace. But part of that wisdom is knowing when to fight and another part is knowing when to fight even harder.”
Arnold Palmer
“I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that’s the attitude of a young person who hasn’t a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.”
Arnold Palmer
“In my youth I worked on a golf course and I pushed mowers. They didn’t have motors and the tractors didn’t have power steering. I was the motor and I was the power. That was my fitness regimen.”
Arnold Palmer
11 Inspirational Arnold Palmer Quotes on Life
“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
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
“Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it’s imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.”
Arnold Palmer
“To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.”
Arnold Palmer
2 Arnold Palmer Quotes on Putting
3 Arnold Palmer Quotes About Concentration
“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
2 Arnold Palmer Quotes on Judging Distance
“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
3 Arnold Palmer Quotes on Iced Tea and Lemonade
“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
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
4 Arnold Palmer Quotes on Aviation
“I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.”
Arnold Palmer
15 Arnold Palmer Quotes That Will Make You Think
“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
“It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.”
Arnold Palmer
“There’s no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don’t want to do that.”
Arnold Palmer
“I’ve been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it’s an amazing difference. There was a time when I couldn’t hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything, it really is very impressive.”
Arnold Palmer
“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.”
Arnold Palmer
“It was the most prestigious honor I’ve ever received. Its recipients are among the most impressive people in American history. George Washington was first and I won’t be the last.”
Arnold Palmer
“A great evening is a couple of drinks, dinner with friends or loved ones, a few more drinks and then early to bed. It’s the same as it was 40 years ago only with maybe a couple more drinks and a little later in the evening.”
Arnold Palmer
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