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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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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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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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Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
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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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Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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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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You have more potential than you think.
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I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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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 was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
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Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
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Those who go along get along.
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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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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
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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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I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
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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.
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