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 HOGANMay thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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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 don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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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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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.
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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
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