286 Quotes by Arnold Palmer

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees. I went on to win the tournament and later, instead of my dad congratulating me, he told me that if I ever threw a club again, I'd never play in another golf tournament. I haven't thrown a club since.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.