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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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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
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If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
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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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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 a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
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I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.
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I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
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A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.
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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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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
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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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You have more potential than you think.
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