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?
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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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.
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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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There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
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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 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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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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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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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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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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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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