A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win. Arnold Palmer
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays. Arnold Palmer
As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I’m doing, I guess I’ll keep doing it. Arnold Palmer
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer
Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out. Arnold Palmer
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. 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. 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
Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else. Arnold Palmer
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple. I missed a four-foot putt for an eleven. 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
I don’t look at it as a gamble, really. I just look at it as a harder shot. Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you’re in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one. Arnold Palmer
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It is called an eraser. Arnold Palmer
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either. Arnold Palmer
I would like to have won more golf tournaments but I wouldn’t sacrifice my life. I’ve enjoyed it. I’d love to do it again the same way. Arnold Palmer
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. Arnold Palmer
I’m not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? 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
One thing I’ve learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won’t float. Arnold Palmer
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer Quotes
Putting is like wisdom…partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. Arnold Palmer
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. Arnold Palmer
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer
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. 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 to the challenge. Arnold Palmer
They’d have to carry me out here before they would get me in a golf cart. Arnold Palmer
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. Arnold Palmer
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it. Arnold Palmer
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. Arnold Palmer
When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn’t smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I’m too nice a guy. Arnold Palmer
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time – that’s being alive. Arnold Palmer
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is. Arnold Palmer
You know your getting old when all the names in your little black book have M.D. after them. Arnold Palmer
You must play boldly to win. Arnold Palmer