Ken Venturi Famous Quotes & Sayings
30 Ken Venturi Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Mean teasing is still mean— Courtney Rose
When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.— Ken Venturi
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.— Ken Venturi
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.— Joseph Campbell
In rich detail, Ken told us that on the second hole of the opening round, Hogan got stuck while standing over a putt. Hogan had the yips. "I can't take it back, Ken," Hogan said. "Nobody gives a shit, Ben," Ken said back. That bit of wise-guy humor was evidently all Hogan needed to hear: At age fifty-three and playing barely any tournament golf, he finished twelfth. Venturi finished three shots behind. Palmer was leading by seven with nine holes left and lost to Billy Casper in a playoff. Ken— Michael Bamberger
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.— Khaled Hosseini
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.— Ken Venturi
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.— Ken Venturi
After you have the basics down it's all mental.— Ken Venturi
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.'— Ken Venturi
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.— Ken Venturi
You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.— Ken Venturi
When I turned 15 years old, I decided to press the issue a little further. I knew fuckin well that my daddy wasn't dead, because never in my life growing up did I ever see my mother crying for this man. I never saw her in mourning or anything. I never saw a picture of him hanging up around the house.— Diamond Johnson
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.— Ken Venturi
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.— Ken Venturi
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.— Ken Venturi
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.— Ken Venturi
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.— Ken Venturi
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.— Ken Venturi
My father was a man of few words.— Ken Venturi
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.— Alexis De Tocqueville
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.— Ken Venturi
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.— Ken Venturi
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.— Ken Venturi
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.— John Ruskin
Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?— Florence King
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.— Ken Venturi
There was real plasure to be had eating ice cream out of container and pickles out of a glass jar, standing up at the counter. I wondered whether the cravings associated with pregnancy were really only a matter of women feeling empowered to admit their odd longings to their husbands, to ask another person to bring them the eccentric combinations they'd long enjoyed in private.— Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.— Ken Venturi
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.— Ken Venturi
