Sam Snead Quotes - Page 2

Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

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.

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

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

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.

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

What abandoned course is that?

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

Golf is played with the arms.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

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

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 had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

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.

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

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Those who go along get along.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

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.