Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
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.
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
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.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
You must play boldly to win.
The more I practice the luckier I get.
The golf champ used to fly his own twin-engine, seven-seater plane to golf tournaments In 1973 he became the first golfer to win more than $100,000 in one year
The Arnold Palmer Award is presented annually to the medallist at the NCAA Championships in Divisions I, II and III.
Underwent surgery for prostate cancer.
Named "Athlete of the Decade" (1960s) by the Associated Press.
His father, Milfred, was the golf pro and greenskeeper at Latrobe (PA) Country Club, which Palmer now owns.
Autobiography (with James Dodson), "A Golfer's Life"
Chairman of the Board of The Golf Channel.
The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women is located in Orlando, FL. The daughter of his agent, Mark McCormack, was born there.
When he won his last major, the 1964 Masters, Palmer was golf's career money leader. Four years earlier, he had become golf's first career millionaire.
Daughters Peggy (26 February 1956) and Amy (4 August 1958); granddaughters Emily (27 November 1981), Katherine Anne (2 September 1982), Anne Palmer (14 September 1984) Saunders; grandsons, Samuel Palmer Saunders (30 July 1987) and William Gray Palmer Wears (16 October 1994).
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush [June 2004].
Married Kathleen Gawthrop in an intimate, beachside ceremony on O'ahu, Hawai'i. They were at the Turtle Bay Resort because he was playing in the Champions Tour that weekend.
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