Quotes By Arnold Palmer

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

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.

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.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

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.

You must play boldly to win.

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.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

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.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

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.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The road to success is always under construction.

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

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.

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

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

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.