More Quotes by Ken Venturi
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.
My father was a man of few words.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
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.
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
