When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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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 liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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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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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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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I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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