As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGANEvery day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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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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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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 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.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t 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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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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