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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.

Ben Hogan

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGAN

Opportunity Practice
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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Air Golf Sports
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
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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Dreaned Golf Holes Night
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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Game Golf Home
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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Golf Knees Monsters
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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Golf Important Next One
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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Inspirational Motivational Sports
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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Average Golf Problem
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
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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Athlete Golfer Sports
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Games Golf Persistence
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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Games Glamour Golf
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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Eye Fighting Play
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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Friday Inspirational Sports
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Break Golf West
Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Golf Good
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Ball Golf Jesus
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Golf Sports Winning
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Bother Bothered People
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Class Golf People
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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Exercise Memories Skill
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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Golf Hate Pockets

Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.

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