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Don't be ashamed to play safe.

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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Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
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Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
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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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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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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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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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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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As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
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I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.
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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.
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The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
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Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.
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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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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
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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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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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Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.
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