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You have more potential than you think.

Sam Snead

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
Golfer
Thinking
Potential
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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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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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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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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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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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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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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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There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
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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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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
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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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In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
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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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Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
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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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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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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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