I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
BEN HOGANI liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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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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If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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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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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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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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