Sam Snead Quotes about Golf

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

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

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

'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.'

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

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.

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.