Arnold Palmer Eraser Quotes

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business. ~ Arnold Palmer

Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep. ~ Arnold Palmer

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly. ~ Arnold Palmer

I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all. ~ 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. ~ Arnold Palmer

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

I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it. ~ Arnold Palmer

I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work. ~ Arnold Palmer

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top. ~ Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship. ~ Arnold Palmer

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor. ~ Mike Greenberg

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. ~ Arnold Palmer

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. ~ Arnold Palmer

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

You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don't think having an 18-year-old, somebody who's probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me. ~ Kyle Petty

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot. ~ Arnold Palmer

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing. ~ Arnold Palmer

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

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

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game. ~ Arnold Palmer

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~ 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

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

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much ... I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it. ~ Arnold Palmer

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

I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls. ~ Arnold Palmer

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed. ~ 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. ~ 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

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it. ~ Arnold Palmer

I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form. ~ Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. ~ Bob Hope

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. ~ Arnold Palmer

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory. ~ Arnold Palmer