Sam Snead Quotes


"Of all the hazards, fear is the worst."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Fear)

"Practice puts brains in your muscles."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Practice)

"The greens are harder than a whore's heart."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Heart)

"The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Shadow)

"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Ability, Defeat)

"The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish."
- Sam Snead
(Related: First, Fish, Golf, Reason)

"These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Shadow)

"Those who go along get along."
- Sam Snead
"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."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Golf, Indifference)

"If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Death, People, Golf)

"Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Time)

"Golf is played with the arms."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Golf)

"Forget your opponents; always play against par."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Forget, Opponents, Play)

"Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Time, Fault, Want)

"Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot."
- Sam Snead