Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
BEN HOGANGolf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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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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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.
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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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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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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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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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