Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGANPeople 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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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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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.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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 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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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