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People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.

Ben Hogan

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGAN

Opportunity Practice
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Play
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Luck Skills Two
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Golfer Sports
There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can’t play every hole the same way. I never could.
BEN HOGAN

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGAN

Ball Golf Jesus
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
BEN HOGAN

Golf Men Reason Shoot
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hate Pockets
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Stroke Wife
You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don’t make a big deal out of an easy shot.
BEN HOGAN

Eye Fighting Play
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf

People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.

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People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.

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