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.
BEN HOGANI 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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 liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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 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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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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