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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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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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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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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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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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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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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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I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
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'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'
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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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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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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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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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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
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Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
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