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 HOGANMay thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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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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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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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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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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