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I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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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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You have more potential than you think.
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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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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
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That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
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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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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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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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Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
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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 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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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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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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If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
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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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