Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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