Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGANRelax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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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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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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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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 are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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 don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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