This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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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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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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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 play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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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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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
BEN HOGAN