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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.

Sam Snead

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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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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Forget your opponents always play against par.
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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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Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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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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If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
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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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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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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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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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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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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
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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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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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Those who go along get along.
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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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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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