More Quotes by Ken Venturi
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
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.
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.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
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.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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.
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
