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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Ben Hogan

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
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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Golf Morning Waiting
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Game Golf Lower Score Sports
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Golf Stroke Wife
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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Dreaned Golf Holes Night
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Ball Golf Jesus
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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Game Golf Home
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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Friday Inspirational Sports
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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Game Golf Practice Right
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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Golf Needs Sports
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Bother Bothered People
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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Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
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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Golf Iron Player
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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Golf Luck Skills Two
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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Challenge Singing Sports
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Funny Games Golf
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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Golf Hate Pockets
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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Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Games Golf Sports
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Games Golf Winning
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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Disgrace Important Names
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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Done Golf Mean
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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Average Golf Problem

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