Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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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 golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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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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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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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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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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