The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGANAs you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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 greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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