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

Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Sam Snead

Golf is played with the arms.
Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

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

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
Sam Snead

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Sam Snead

Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead

The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
Sam Snead

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead


The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Sam Snead

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead

Those who go along get along.
Sam Snead

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.
Sam Snead

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