Top 66 Quotes & Sayings by Sam Snead
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Those who go along get along.
Golf is played with the arms.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
You have more potential than you think.
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.
To win you must have talent and desire but desire is first.
When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.
That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.
You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
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.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
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.
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.
The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.
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.
When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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.
Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.
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.
Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.
If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
What abandoned course is that?
Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
'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.'
The fact that Slammin' Sammy couldn't win the Open made it all the more valuable for the players that did win. Gave it a special quality. I'd say a part of the sheen on that trophy comes from my sweat.
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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