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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.

Ben Hogan

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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Day Greatness One Practice
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
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Golf Judging Swings
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGAN

Inspirational Motivational Sports
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Golf Sports Winning
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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Accident Ball Moving Other Way
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
BEN HOGAN

Play Way Winning
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Lying Water
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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Athlete Golfer Sports
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGAN

Ball Golf Jesus
You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don’t make a big deal out of an easy shot.
BEN HOGAN

Eye Fighting Play
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hate Pockets
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing Sports
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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Golf Hair Swings
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
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Funny Games Golf
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.
BEN HOGAN

Done Golf Mean
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGAN

Disgrace Important Names
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Game Golf Lower Score Sports
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Winning
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.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill

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