Quotes by Sam Snead

• Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
• Practice puts brains in your muscles.
• The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
• Those who go along get along.
• 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.
• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
• Golf is played with the arms.
• Forget your opponents; always play against par.
• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.