Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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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 we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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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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 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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