More Quotes by Ken Venturi
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
My father was a man of few words.
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
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.
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.
