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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
Aircraft Pilot
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Arnold Daniel Palmer
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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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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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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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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.
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I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
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An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
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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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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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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.
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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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Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
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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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Don't be ashamed to play safe.
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I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
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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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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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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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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
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