Arnold Palmer

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

Arnold Palmer

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

Arnold Palmer

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

Arnold Palmer

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can’t figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Arnold Palmer

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

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 on your collar.

Arnold Palmer

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

Arnold Palmer

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.

Arnold Palmer

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

Arnold Palmer