Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hansen

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

David Duval

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

David Duval

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

David Duval

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

David Brenner

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Arnold Palmer

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Arnold Palmer

All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.

Arnold Palmer

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.

Arnold Palmer

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

Arnold Palmer

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

Arnold Palmer

I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.

Arnold Palmer

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

Arnold Palmer

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

Arnold Palmer

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

Arnold Palmer

There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.

Arnold Palmer

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Arnold Palmer

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

Arnold Palmer

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

Arnold Palmer

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

Arnold Palmer

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

Arnold Palmer

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

Arnold Palmer

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

Arnold Palmer

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

Arnold Palmer

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

Arnold Palmer

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

Arnold Palmer

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

Arnold Palmer

I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

Arnold Palmer

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

Arnold Palmer

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

Arnold Palmer

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

Arnold Palmer

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Arnold Palmer

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.