The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
BEN HOGANI liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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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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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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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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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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