Sam Snead Quotes

"Practice puts brains in your muscles."

"Of all the hazards, fear is the worst."

"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat."

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

"Forget your opponents; always play against par."

"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."

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

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

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

"Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome."

"Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away."

"Those who go along get along."

"Golf is played with the arms."

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

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