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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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I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.
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The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
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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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It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
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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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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 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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I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
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Don't be ashamed to play safe.
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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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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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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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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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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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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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Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
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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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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
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