More Quotes by Ken Venturi
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.
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
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.
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.