More Quotes by Ken Venturi
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
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.
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
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.
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 my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
