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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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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 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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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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I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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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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Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
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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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Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
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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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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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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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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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I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.
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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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Swing your swing. I know, I did.
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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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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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I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.
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