A Life Well Played Quotes

“I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories

“...I tended to be perfectly comfortable hitting shots from places where no other golfer ever wanted to be. It turned out to be an important lesson about the game: you've got to learn to live with trouble, and you've got to learn how to get out of it.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories

“I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that’s the attitude of a young person who hasn’t a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories

“To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories

“It might be an easy chip or a putt, what have you. That makes you a little bit anxious, which gets you swinging a bit more quickly. You lose your innate tempo. But, worse, you start thinking quickly. You start pressing, for distance, mainly, but by and large you start trying to hit shots you have no business trying to make.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories

“I'm a dreamer. I freely and readily admit that. But I consider that one of my strongest qualities.”
― Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories