If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGANIf we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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 play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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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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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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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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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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