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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.

Ben Hogan

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
BEN HOGAN

Play Way Winning
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
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
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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Funny Sports
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
BEN HOGAN

Air Golf Sports
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hair Swings
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.
BEN HOGAN

Judging People Player
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?
BEN HOGAN

Golf Men Reason Shoot
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hate Pockets
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning Waiting
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 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.
BEN HOGAN

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
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 was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGAN

Giving Golf Life Work
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
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.
BEN HOGAN

Driving Force People
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing 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
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 HOGAN

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

Day Greatness One Practice
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGAN

Opportunity Practice
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Needs Sports
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hrad Money Try Trying

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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