Golf Quotes by Arnold Palmer

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

— Arnold Palmer

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

— Arnold Palmer

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

— Arnold Palmer

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

— Arnold Palmer

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

— Arnold Palmer

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

— Arnold Palmer

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

— Arnold Palmer

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Arnold Palmer

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick…

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Arnold Palmer

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Arnold Palmer

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come…

— Arnold Palmer

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it…

— Arnold Palmer

I've stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope…

— Arnold Palmer

I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fact. They just get out…

— Arnold Palmer

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro -…

— Arnold Palmer

I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off…

— Arnold Palmer

That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to…

— Arnold Palmer

I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a…

— Arnold Palmer

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should…

— Arnold Palmer

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding…

— Arnold Palmer

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It…

— Arnold Palmer

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both…

— Arnold Palmer

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round…

— 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…

— Arnold Palmer

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be…

— Arnold Palmer

I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people…

— Arnold Palmer

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the…

— Arnold Palmer

When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees.…

— Arnold Palmer

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

— Arnold Palmer

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

— Arnold Palmer

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

— Arnold Palmer

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

— Arnold Palmer

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

— Arnold Palmer

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

— Arnold Palmer

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

— Arnold Palmer

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

— Arnold Palmer