Quote

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.

Sam Snead

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
Golfer
Matter
Green
Hole
Whole
Beginning
Quit
Giving
Habit
Breakfast
Never
Game
Quitting
Games
Holes
Tossing
Happens
Cards
Tees
Also
Drinking
Undermine
Give
Golf
Forming

More quotes by Sam Snead

Image
If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
Sam Snead
Image
There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
Sam Snead
Image
But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
Sam Snead
Image
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
Sam Snead
Image
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Sam Snead
Image
Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
Sam Snead
Image
Those who go along get along.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
You have more potential than you think.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
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.
Sam Snead
Image
Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
Sam Snead
Image
When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
Sam Snead
Image
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
Sam Snead