Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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 don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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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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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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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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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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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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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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