Sam Snead Quotes
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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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.
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What abandoned course is that?
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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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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.
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When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.
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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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If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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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.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
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There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
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If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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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.
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I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
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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.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.
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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.
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
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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.
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But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy said: You going to crucify a man because he missed a putt to win a tournament? Does a three-foot putt mean his whole life? Another guy said, well, he couldn't win the big one. Well, Jesus, what do you call those others? What's big and what's small?
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Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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