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

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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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.
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Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
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One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
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If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.
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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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The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
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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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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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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 can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.
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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 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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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.
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Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.
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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 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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If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.
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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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Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
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