My father was my major teacher, disciplinarian. But my mother lent a lot to me and to my life, in that, when things weren’t going right, or when my father was too tough, I had the soft feel of my mother to help me, and she did. And she a lot of the times gave me confidence that I needed to overcome some of the things that happened that weren’t so pleasant.
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Arnold Palmer
Professional golfer; winner of seven major championships
United States · 1929–2016
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One of the dominant golfers of the late 1950s and 1960s, credited with taking the game to a mass television audience. Won the Masters four times, the Open Championship twice and the U.S. Open once.
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