Ken Venturi famous quotes

04-12-2025

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.
-- Ken Venturi

#Motivational #Get Well #Inspiration
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
-- Ken Venturi

#Money #Memories #Golf
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
-- Ken Venturi

#Life Is #Remembered
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
-- Ken Venturi

#Running #Art #Distance
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
-- Ken Venturi

#Life #Two #Rules Of Life
You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Score
My father was a man of few words.
-- Ken Venturi

#Father #Men #Few Words
I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.
-- Ken Venturi

#Names
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
-- Ken Venturi

#Problem #Stammering #Results
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
-- Ken Venturi

#Effort #Trying #Sometimes
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Basics
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Pace #Clock
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.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Animal #Hands
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.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Two #Mind
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.
-- Ken Venturi

#Cocky #Winning #Long
When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.
-- Ken Venturi

#Meaningful #Father #Spokes
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.
-- Ken Venturi

#Retirement #Hero #Giving
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
-- Ken Venturi

#Cancer #Wife #Treatment
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.'
-- Ken Venturi

#Father #Taught #Quitting
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
-- Ken Venturi

#Mother #Father #Kids

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