More Quotes by 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.
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.
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
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.
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.
