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More Quotes by Ken Venturi
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
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.'
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
My father was a man of few words.
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.
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.
You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
