Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGANI could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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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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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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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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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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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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