I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
BEN HOGANThere is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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