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In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Sam Snead

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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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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Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
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Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
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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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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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The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
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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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If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
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Those who go along get along.
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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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Forget your opponents always play against par.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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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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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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When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
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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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There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
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