Ken Venturi Quotes

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• Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
• The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup.…
• All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
• After you have the basics down it's all mental.
• There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
• You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.
• My father was a man of few words.
• I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
• I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
• Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
• I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
• The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
• Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
• My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
• I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
• Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is…
• When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.
• People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say,…
• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to…

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