Arnold Palmer Quotes

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Arnold Palmer

Profession : Golfer

Birth : September 10, 1929

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

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 fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

Arnold Palmer

I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Arnold Palmer

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

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

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

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

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

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

Arnold Palmer

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Arnold Palmer

I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

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

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

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

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

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

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

Arnold Palmer

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Arnold Palmer