Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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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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