Sam Snead Golf Quotes
Date of Birth: May 27, 1912
Birthplace: Ashwood, VA
Below is a list of famous golf quotes said by Swingin Sam Snead.
"When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose."
"swing up, pull down"
“Forget your opponents; always play against par.”
“Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.”
“Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.”
"You can not go into a shop and buy a good game of golf."
“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”
“The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.”
“Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.”
“Practice puts brains in your muscles.”
“Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.”
“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.”
“The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.”
“Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.”
“Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.”
“You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.”
“The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.”
When asked in the golf digest interview could he have whipped Tiger Woods
External links
World Golf Hall of Fame profilePhotos of Sam Snead at Palm Beach Golf Classic
