Sam Snead Quotes

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

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.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

It's been my experience that success in golf comes from not letting your mind wander from the shot you're about to hit.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf. There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it's time to play in competition, you don't want to think too many thoughts.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.