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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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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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Arnold Daniel Palmer
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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 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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Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
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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.
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I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.
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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.
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Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
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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.
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As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
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I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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