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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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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.
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I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.
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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.
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I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on.
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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.
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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?
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I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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