When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGANThe average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You’ve got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you’re in the boondocks it won’t do you any good.
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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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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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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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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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You wouldn’t have had to call a penalty on me, I would’ve called I on myself’. 9. “I’m the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
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