[Spiny_Norman]

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think that you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost
For out in the world you’ll find
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
~ Arnold Palmer

When I attended junior golf camp at Oklahoma State years ago, Labron Harris shared this poem with us to emphasize the importance of the mental side of the game. I still can quote most of it. But it was not written by Arnold Palmer. It is attributed to a mostly unknown poet named Walter Wintle.

What is IS is unalloyed B.S. More crap slopping around the Internet.  Didn't Walter Wintle write a gossip column?  Oh, yes, and he also was begging Herb Caen for a job in his sad, declining years. Stanford wins four, God-willing and the creek don't rise. I'd bet on three. As Vin Scully would have said about Stanford depth: "If you sliced bread that thin you'd starve to death".

(Yes, Scully really said this, but not about Stanford. He was referring to an errant umpire's call.)

I think you are confusing poet Walter Wintle with gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

[Spiny_Norman]

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think that you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost
For out in the world you’ll find
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
~ Arnold Palmer

When I attended junior golf camp at Oklahoma State years ago, Labron Harris shared this poem with us to emphasize the importance of the mental side of the game. I still can quote most of it. But it was not written by Arnold Palmer. It is attributed to a mostly unknown poet named Walter Wintle.

What is IS is unalloyed B.S. More crap slopping around the Internet.  Didn't Walter Wintle write a gossip column?  Oh, yes, and he also was begging Herb Caen for a job in his sad, declining years. Stanford wins four, God-willing and the creek don't rise. I'd bet on three. As Vin Scully would have said about Stanford depth: "If you sliced bread that thin you'd starve to death".

(Yes, Scully really said this, but not about Stanford. He was referring to an errant umpire's call.)

I think you are confusing poet Walter Wintle with gossip columnist Walter Winchell.