You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
BEN HOGANPeople 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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.
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I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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You wouldn’t have had to call a penalty on me, I would’ve called I on myself’. 9. “I’m the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
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I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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?
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