33 Quotes by Ken Venturi

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

My father was a man of few words.

Nobody, not even Palmer, is bigger than the Game, ... I firmly believe that he did wrong and that he knows that I know he did wrong.

You can't be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus until you do it. But... after having dinner with Tiger, he's the most mature 18-year-old golfer I've known.

It was my last hurrah to win in my hometown. Harding was a special place to say goodbye.

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.