Sam Snead Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Sick

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• Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

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  Hazards, Anticipation, Scared

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• Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

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  Sports, Golf, Thinking

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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.

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  Sports, Distance, Golf

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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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  Decision, Preparation, Making Decisions

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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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  Success, Sports, Golf

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

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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.

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  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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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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  Golf, Thinking, Shoes

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• What abandoned course is that?

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  Golf, Abandoned, Courses

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

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  Golf, Fishing, Hunters

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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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  Golf, Nine, Lasts

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• Golf is played with the arms.

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  Sports, Golf, Arms

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

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  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• 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.

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  Eye, Golf, Years

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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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  Golf, Tree, Green

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

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  Golf, Long, Golfing

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• 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.

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  Golf, Men, Years

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• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

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  Golf, Shots, Funny Golf

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

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  Mistake, White, Balls

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• Those who go along get along.

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

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  Golf, Play, Balls

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

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  Golf, Looks, Use

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

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  Fall, Golf, Fit

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• I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

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  Football, Trying, Monkeys

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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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  Green, Ants, Remember

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