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I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

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 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 always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.
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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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The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
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Swing your swing. I know, I did.
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Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.
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Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
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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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The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
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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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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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Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.
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Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.
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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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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life.He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way.
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I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
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It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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Don't be ashamed to play safe.
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