The most important shot in golf is the next one.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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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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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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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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