I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGANI play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGANGolf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
BEN HOGANEvery day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGANWhen I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
BEN HOGANYour name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGANShoot a lower score than everybody else.
BEN HOGANLike most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGANI play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGANGolf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGANEvery day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
BEN HOGANJesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGANI 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 HOGANPeople 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 have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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