Golf Quotes by Sam Snead

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

— Sam Snead

Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.

— Sam Snead

What abandoned course is that?

— Sam Snead

Golf is played with the arms.

— Sam Snead

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

— Sam Snead

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

— Sam Snead

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

— Sam Snead

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever…

— Sam Snead

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

— Sam Snead

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give…

— Sam Snead

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a…

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This…

— Sam Snead

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask…

— Sam Snead

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I…

— Sam Snead

No matter what happens - never give up a hole…In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your…

— Sam Snead

The fact that Slammin' Sammy couldn't win the Open made it all the more valuable for the players that did win. Gave…

— Sam Snead

'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr.…

— Sam Snead

But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy…

— Sam Snead

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address…

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

— Sam Snead

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Sam Snead

What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be…

— Sam Snead

The greens are harder than a whore's heart.

— Sam Snead

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

— Sam Snead

You can't go into a shop and buy a good game of golf.

— Sam Snead