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Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
Golfer
Brains
Muscles
Puts
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Brain
Practice
Inspirational
Golfing

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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
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I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
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I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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Forget your opponents always play against par.
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Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
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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.
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Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
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First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.
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Those who go along get along.
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You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
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When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
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There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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