Sam Snead Quotes

Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

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

Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

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

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

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

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

No matter what happens – never give up a hole….In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

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

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

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

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