286 Quotes by Arnold Palmer

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-­ - 3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.