Arnold Palmer Quotes

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

I'm becoming a more complete player. I have more shots. I can rely more on my putting, rely on my short game.

When you're out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

People think I can just walk out and shoot 75 without taking a warm-up shot. But believe me, it's not that easy.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.

I love putting. I love to practice my short game.

That is what shooting is. There is no secret sauce, man. You've got to find mechanics that you can make the same every time, and you've got to do it over and over again, and you can't just shoot for rhythm. You've got to understand what you are doing. You have to focus on those details every day.

For some people to say, 'I just go up there and hit it,' we'll that's good for you. If it works for you, it works for you. But I want to be as precise as possible heading into that shot.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.