More Quotes by Ken Venturi
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
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.
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.'
My father was a man of few words.
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.
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.
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
