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Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.

Arnold Palmer

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Palmer

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.

Arnold Palmer

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

Arnold Palmer

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palmer

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Arnold Palmer

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

Arnold Palmer

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Arnold Palmer

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

Arnold Palmer

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

Arnold Palmer

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Arnold Palmer

I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Arnold Palmer

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Arnold Palmer

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

Arnold Palmer

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Arnold Palmer

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.

Arnold Palmer

The road to success is always under construction.

Arnold Palmer

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.

Arnold Palmer

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.

Arnold Palmer

You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

Arnold Palmer

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.

Arnold Palmer

I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.

Arnold Palmer

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Arnold Palmer

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

Arnold Palmer

You must play boldly to win.

Arnold Palmer

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.

Arnold Palmer

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Arnold Palmer

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.

Arnold Palmer

Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.

Arnold Palmer

I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.

Arnold Palmer

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

Arnold Palmer

I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

Arnold Palmer