I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
BEN HOGANYour name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
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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 never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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I don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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