Sam Snead Quotes

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

'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.'

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

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.

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

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.

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

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

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

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.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.