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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.

Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it and if you can hit it, you can move it and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.
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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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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 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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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, Well, boy, you did good, and that was it.
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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
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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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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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I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
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It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
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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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Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
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In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.
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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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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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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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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
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