If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGANA shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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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 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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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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