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 HOGANYour name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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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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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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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.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
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