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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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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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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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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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It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
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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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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
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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 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'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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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.
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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.
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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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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 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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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.
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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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 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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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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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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