Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGANSelecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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You 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.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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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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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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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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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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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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