You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Aging, Age
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
Topics: Concentration, Focus
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
Topics: Concentration
You must play boldly to win.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Competition, Golf, Boldness
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Golf
It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Golf, One liners
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Golf
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Enjoyment, Performance, Effort
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 his instrument with an internal sense of rightness—it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Possibilities, Potential, Talents, Abilities, Work
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
Topics: Belief, Effort, Chance, Perseverance, Golf
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Golf
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
—Arnold Palmer
Topics: Golf, Effort
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