Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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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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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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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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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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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 was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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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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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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