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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
Aircraft Pilot
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Golfer
Professional Golfer
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Pennsylvania
Arnold Daniel Palmer
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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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 never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?
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I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.
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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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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
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I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.
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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'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on.
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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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I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.
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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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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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The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
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I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.
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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 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 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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We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.
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