Quotes from Sam Snead

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 said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

To win, you must have both talent an desire- but desire first.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

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

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

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

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.

Golf is played with the arms.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

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

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

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

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

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

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

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

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

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

Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease

Golf is played with the arms

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