Arnold Palmer Quotes

I'm a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my elbow, whatever it might be, and there's a lot of guys nowadays that are like that. That's the trend of the game, that's the way the game has gone.

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.

I'm still learning about my swing more. I continue to learn, with the help of my hitting instructors.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

A lot of people didn't believe in me.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

There's been so many times when I've heard people not pulling for me. So I just play and try not to think about it.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

There is no chip coming off of my shoulder because, at the end of the day, you're still going to continue to be doubted.

I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.

I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it.

We've been trying to get my body and head moving toward the target on the downswing. I have a tendency to hang back and not release the club.

A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I'd never be a top 10 fighter, that I'd never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn't do.

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don't have to worry about losing your balance.

There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.