Arnold Palmer Quotes About Golf
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I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
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Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.
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[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.
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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.
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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.
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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.
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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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.
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I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.
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I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
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One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
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I love America. I wanted to play golf.
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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.
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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.
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My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
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How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.
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I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
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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.
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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.
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Timing is everything in life and in golf.
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Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.
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Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
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When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees. I went on to win the tournament and later, instead of my dad congratulating me, he told me that if I ever threw a club again, I'd never play in another golf tournament. I haven't thrown a club since.
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Arnold Palmer
- Born: September 10, 1929
- Died: September 25, 2016
- Occupation: Professional golfer
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