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"Sam Snead is a great credit to the game of golf. I don't think anyone in the world has ever played as well as Sam for as long a period of time."
-- Byron Nelson, "The Game I Love"
"Watching Sam Snead hit golf balls is like watching a fish practice swimming."
-- Charles Price
"It's called color. Some people have it and some don't. As for 'Slammin' Sam Snead,' he has enough color to outfit a couple of rainbow factories."
-- Rex Lardner, "The Great Golfers"
"'Slammin' Sammy' became one of the game's captivating personalities. He traveled the world. He wore silk suits, cashmere sweaters, and $50 shoes, but city polish never wore off on him. He remained the perpetual hillbilly, completely devoid of affectation and full of droll backwoods humor."
-- Will Grimsley, "Golf: It's History, People and Events"
"Snead was something else again, a marvel among marvels, a full blown player with a gigantic game that was somehow already tournament bright. He loomed over the golf scene, a star of special magnitude that had suddenly appeared from somewhere over the rainbow."
-- Charles Price, Golf Digest (1983)
"Snead may be the greatest athlete of all time, but the secret to his longevity, I think, is not his athletic coordination. It is his supreme desire, his competitive spirit. I have never met anyone in my life who enjoys golf and delights in winning more than Sam Snead."
-- Bob Toski, "Golf for a Lifetime"
"Had Snead not come along, the world might never have learned what a perfect golf swing really is: a clean, sweeping action, not too unlike that of an extended pendulum on a grandfather clock; ordinary in a machine, but awesome in a man."
-- Lee Mueller, Golf Magazine (1972)
"All the world loves a long hitter, and Snead could really powder that apple."
-- Herbert Warren Wind, "The Story of American Golf"
"He was as natural as FDR, as refreshing as Charlie McCarthy, as gracefully gorgeous on a golf course as Joe DiMaggio was on a ball field."
-- Charles Price, Golf Digest (1983)
"Sam Snead.is the only person who came into the game possessing every physical attribute: a sound swing, power, a sturdy physique, and no bad habits."
-- Gene Sarazen, "Thirty Years of Championship Golf"
"Samuel Jackson Snead has played his game longer and better than any sportsman of record."
-- Ken Bowden
"If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork like they do a golf club, they'd starve to death."
"I shot a wild elephant in Africa 30 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 4 foot putt scares me to death."
"The only reason I played golf was so I could afford to go hunting or fishing."
"I'm self-taught. What I know I worked out for myself. I started at the bottom and worked at it. When I made mistakes, I went back on the course and tried to find out why. You do that enough and you're going to get some answers."
"Good golfing temperament falls in between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit. I believe you should blow up, at times, if it helps, but only if you can still keep your wits about you. I couldn't beat any pro if I didn't get my temper outbreak over with fast, then start thinking out the next shot. It's like opening a steam valve for a moment, then shutting it."
"Desire is the most important thing in sports. I have it. Jeez, no one has any more than I got. I admire a guy with will and drive, the kind that will beat you 10 and 8 if he has a chance. Pour it on. I think you got to be that way in sport."
"The sun don't shine on the same dog's tail all the time."
"A free and simple approach to golf is more effective than a complicated method. When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is as loose as a goose."
"Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing."
"I've got everything I want. As long as you got three squares a day, drive a Cadillac car, don't have to worry about bills, and go to bed and wake up when you choose, what else do you want?"
"Some guy once told me you didn't have to practice to be a good player.I'd never heard of the game he was talking about."
"I like competition. I play just as hard for $5 as I do for $50,000. Most folks don't understand that, but I think that's the way you have to be."
"What the heck, I can only fish and hunt so much. I love to play golf!" |
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