It's an honor for a guy who never played ball or golf to be in the same hall as Arthur Ashe and Sam Snead. Notice I said 'the same hall' and not 'the same league.' 
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Quotes about Sam Snead
It's an honor for a guy who never played ball or golf to be in the same hall as Arthur Ashe and Sam Snead. Notice I said 'the same hall' and not 'the same league.'
was said
in Roanoke.com
I'm glad you're here because I need some help answering a question. I know Sam Snead won Greensboro eight times, but I'm trying to find out how many times he played in that tournament. Byron won it twice in the five years he played, but Sam didn't win any of those other three.
was said
in PGA.com
People thought he was crazy, and he was crazy, I guess ... But what you have to understand about my father is that he had a passion for golf, just like Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson and Sam Snead had a passion for golf. Those men were about my father's age and had been exposed to the game through caddying, just like he was. But they had a place to play and he didn't, so he had to build his own course.
said William Powell
Certainly Tiger is a lightning rod, if that's the term to use, and he has been prominent enough that he has created additional interest in the game ... I don't think that it's an absolute. If you go back to the (Byron) Nelson era or the (Ben) Hogan and (Sam) Snead era or on back to the (Walter) Hagen era, you had people who were pretty outstanding players and they attracted a lot of attention. From time to time in the future, we will have players emerge as great ones and attract the same sort of attention.
said Arnold Palmer
Quotes from articles mentioning Sam Snead
What remotely is the point in chasing a little white ball around a large green field for half a day?
was said
I'm glad you're here because I need some help answering a question. I know Sam Snead won Greensboro eight times, but I'm trying to find out how many times he played in that tournament. Byron won it twice in the five years he played, but Sam didn't win any of those other three.
was said
in PGA.com
