Arnold Daniel Palmer is the full name of a former professional golfer from the United States. On September 10, 1929, he was born, and on September 25, 2016, he died. He is also considered one of the greatest and most fascinating athletes in sports history.
Furthermore, he is a winner of various awards on both the PGA Tour and the circuit. That circuit is now known as the PGA Tour Champions. He is still recognized as a popular golfer, and he earned the moniker “The King.”Similarly, from 1955 to 1973, he won 62 PGA Tour titles. Palmer’s next major accomplishment came in 1998 when he received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award. His admirers still follow his quotes, and I’m sharing a few of them in honor of his excellence.
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“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
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“Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”― Arnold Palmer
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“I HAVE A TIP THAT WILL TAKE FIVE STROKES OFF ANYONE’S GOLF GAME. IT’S CALLED AN ERASER.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“The road to success is always under construction.”― Arnold Palmer
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“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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
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“There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.”― Arnold Palmer
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”― Arnold Palmer
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“I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I’ll never forget those things.”― Arnold Palmer
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“WHY HIT A CONSERVATIVE SHOT? WHEN YOU MISS IT, YOU ARE IN JUST AS MUCH TROUBLE AS WHEN YOU MISS A BOLD ONE.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.”― Arnold Palmer
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“I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.”― Arnold Palmer
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“It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.”― Arnold Palmer
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“HAD I NOT BECOME A PROFESSIONAL GOLFER, I THINK I WOULD HAVE PURSUED SOME TYPE OF CAREER IN AVIATION.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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
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“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”― Arnold Palmer
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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.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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
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“I PUTT LIKE I DID WHEN I WAS A KID. WHEN YOU’RE A KID, YOU’RE NOT SCARED OF ANYTHING.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.”― Arnold Palmer
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“I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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
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“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
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“You must play boldly to win.”― Arnold Palmer
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“Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.”― Arnold Palmer
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“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
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“Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn’t say where it would lead me.”― Arnold Palmer
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“GOLF IS DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE AND ENDLESSLY COMPLICATED.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“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
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“I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn’t think I’d last too long. Nothing physical – they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a ‘muscle swing’ to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn’t get past 30 out there.”― Arnold Palmer
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“THE WINNERS AT THE OLYMPICS STEP UP, BURSTING WITH PRIDE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAVE WORKED FOR AND ALL THEIR DEDICATION IS REWARDED IN A CLIMAX THAT I, AND MOST GOLFERS, WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE.”― ARNOLD PALMER
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“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
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“Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.”― Arnold Palmer
