Quotes from Arnold Palmer

You must play boldly to win.

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

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

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

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

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.

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don't need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.' And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.

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.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

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.