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 HOGANCertainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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 have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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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 always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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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.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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