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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.

Ben Hogan

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Home
Control 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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
BEN HOGAN

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

Opportunity Practice
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing Sports
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hair Swings
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Sports Winning
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

Driving Force People
You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning Waiting
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 HOGAN

Accident Ball Moving Other Way
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 HOGAN

Champion Golf Men
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Play
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Lower Score Sports
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
BEN HOGAN

Bother Bothered People
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
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Stroke Wife
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Funny Sports
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Lying Water
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Judging Swings
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
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 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
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Funny Games Golf

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