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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.

Ben Hogan

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
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Winning
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
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN

Friday Inspirational Sports
I don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
BEN HOGAN

Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
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.
BEN HOGAN

Done Golf Mean
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
BEN HOGAN

Day Greatness One Practice
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Play
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.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
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
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
BEN HOGAN

Class Golf 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
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Golfer Sports
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

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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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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