286 Quotes by Arnold Palmer

I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a “Palmer,” too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

Frankly, I’m not much for funerals unless it’s absolutely an obligation. I don’t feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they’re alive.

I look back, it taught me something – it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

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

Know how to win by following the rules.

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.

If you can concentrate on what you’re doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you’ll succeed.

If you’re stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.