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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.

Ben Hogan

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing Sports
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Practice Right
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Needs Sports
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Sports Winning
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hair Swings
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Bother Bothered People
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
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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Accident Ball Moving Other Way
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Winning
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.
BEN HOGAN

Eye Fighting Play
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Important Next One
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Knees Monsters
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning Waiting
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Play Way Winning
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
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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Golf Luck Skills Two
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Greatest Improving Pleasure
You wouldn’t have had to call a penalty on me, I would’ve called I on myself’. 9. “I’m the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
BEN HOGAN

Judging People Player

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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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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