110+ Arnold Palmer Quotes On Golf, Success And Golfing Legend

Arnold Palmer was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's golf. He won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, and is one of the few players to have won on all three of the major tours in his career. Palmer was also one of the most popular athletes of his era and was considered a trailblazer for golf, helping to popularize the sport in the late 1950s and 1960s. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Arnold Palmer on golf, success, life.

Top 10 Arnold Palmer Quotes

1. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
2. It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
3. 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.
4. What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
5. Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
6. Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
7. If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
8. Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
9. I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?
10. Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Arnold Palmer Image Quotes

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. — Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer Short Quotes

• I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
• One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
• The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
• You must play boldly to win.
• Don't be ashamed to play safe.
• As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
• I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.
• Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.
• I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Arnold Palmer Quotes About Golf

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top. — 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

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. — Arnold Palmer

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron. — 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

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears. — Arnold Palmer

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

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves. — Arnold Palmer

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer. — Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer Quotes About Life

Timing is everything in life and in golf. — Arnold Palmer

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot. — Arnold Palmer

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good. — 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

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life. — Arnold Palmer

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life. — Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. — Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did. — Arnold Palmer

I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work. — Arnold Palmer

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

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game. — Arnold Palmer

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport. — Arnold Palmer

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be. — 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

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. — Arnold Palmer

I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in. — Arnold Palmer

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur. — Arnold Palmer

I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week. — 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 -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one. — Arnold Palmer

I had a system, and the system worked. — Arnold Palmer

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman. — Arnold Palmer

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying. — Arnold Palmer

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries. — Arnold Palmer

You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player. — Arnold Palmer

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career. — Arnold Palmer

I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially. — Arnold Palmer

I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it. — Arnold Palmer

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget. — Arnold Palmer

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years. — Arnold Palmer

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory. — 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

I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun. — Arnold Palmer

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction. — Arnold Palmer

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money. — Arnold Palmer

I enjoy the press. I understand their business. — Arnold Palmer

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

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember. — Arnold Palmer

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game. — Arnold Palmer

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day. — Arnold Palmer

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him. — Arnold Palmer

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed. — Arnold Palmer

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait. — Arnold Palmer

I worked for dad on the grounds and I was in high school and I said I wanted to go to college, and he said, well, you figure it out. He said I will pay for your college but you're going to go to St. Vincent. St. Vincent College right here. That's about as much as I can afford, you work here, right here at home. I said, what if I can get somewhere else? And he said if I can get there, that's your call. — Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did. — Arnold Palmer

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering. — Arnold Palmer

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed. — Arnold Palmer

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it. — Arnold Palmer

Phil [Mickelson] has done a great job. He's a great player and he's conducted himself very well through the years. He's been a good ambassador for the game. He hasn't won in a while, but he still has time, and it wouldn't surprise me if he won again. — Arnold Palmer

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip. — Arnold Palmer

There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly. — Arnold Palmer

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf. — Arnold Palmer

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again. — Arnold Palmer

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. — Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship. — Arnold Palmer

I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch. — Arnold Palmer

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation. — Arnold Palmer

I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on. — Arnold Palmer

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer

That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them! — Arnold Palmer

As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years. — 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. 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

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire. — Arnold Palmer

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing. — Arnold Palmer

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about. — Arnold Palmer

I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive. — Arnold Palmer

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

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them. — Arnold Palmer

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer

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. — Arnold Palmer

Know how to win by following the rules — Arnold Palmer

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business. — 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

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

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore. — Arnold Palmer

I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life.He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way. — Arnold Palmer

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players. — Arnold Palmer

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. — Arnold Palmer

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win. — Arnold Palmer

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. — Arnold Palmer

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter. — Arnold Palmer

Life Lessons by Arnold Palmer

1. Arnold Palmer taught us to never give up and to always strive for greatness, no matter the odds. He showed us that hard work and dedication can lead to success and that it is possible to achieve great things.
2. He also taught us to never be afraid to take risks and to always stay humble and kind. He was an example of how to be a great leader and how to be a positive influence on others.
3. Lastly, Arnold Palmer showed us the importance of having a strong work ethic and staying true to yourself. He was an example of how to be a great athlete and a great person.