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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.

Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.
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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.
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My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
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It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
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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 played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.
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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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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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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.
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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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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
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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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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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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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If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.
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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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If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
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