Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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 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.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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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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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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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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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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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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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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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