Sam Snead Quotes (25 Quotes)


    The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

    Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

    The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

    The greens are harder than a whore's heart.

    Practice puts your brains in your muscles.


    Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

    Driving is about seventy-five percent mental, so l believe in giving the ball some sweet talk on the tee. 'This isn't going to hurt a bit, I whisper under my breath. Sambo is just going to give you a little ride.

    Practice puts brains in your muscles.

    Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

    Forget your opponents; always play against par.

    The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

    Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

    Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.


    That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.


    You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

    Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

    The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

    Thinking instead of acting is the number one disease in golf.

    Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

    In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

    If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

    The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.

    To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.


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