Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

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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

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You don’t go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you’re building a golf course.

–Arnold Palmer

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

–Arnold Palmer

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There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

–Arnold Palmer

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There’s no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament, and we [people] don’t want to do that.

–Arnold Palmer

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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

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My problem happens to be nearsightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

–Arnold Palmer

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I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

–Arnold Palmer

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How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple – I missed a four-foot putt for an eleven.

–Arnold Palmer

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Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

–Arnold Palmer

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When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

–Arnold Palmer

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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.

–Arnold Palmer