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.
BEN HOGANI dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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.
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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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 always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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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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