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 HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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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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Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You’ve got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you’re in the boondocks it won’t do you any good.
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If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
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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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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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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 always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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People 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.
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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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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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