Sam Snead Quotes

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• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Hazards

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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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• You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Balls, Problem

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

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Loss, Player

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• Practice puts brains in your muscles.

  Sam Snead

  Inspirational, Golf, Practice

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• 'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Feet, Tree

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• There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

  Sam Snead

  Home, Golf, Men

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• First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Thinking, Mind

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• Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Dimes, Whiskey

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

  Sam Snead

  Inspirational, Focus, Overcoming

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Golf

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• I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Mind, Floating

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• The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Lightning, Three

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

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Knives

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• Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

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  Golf, Three, Quitting

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• You have more potential than you think.

  Sam Snead

  Thinking, Untapped Potential, Ability

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• Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

  Sam Snead

  Thinking, Play, Way

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• A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

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  Games, Iron, Apples

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• Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.

  Sam Snead

  Baby, Bird, Clubs

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• When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

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  Golf, Swings, Mind

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• Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

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  Golf, Play, Sick

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

  Sam Snead

  Success, Sports, Golf

  Sam Snead (1989). “The Lessons I've Learned: Better Golf the Sam Snead Way”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• 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.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Distance, Golf

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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