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.
BEN HOGANControl is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You’ve got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you’re in the boondocks it won’t do you any good.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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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 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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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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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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I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
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If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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