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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

Ben Hogan

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Opportunity Practice
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Games Golf Winning
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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Day Greatness One Practice
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Bother Bothered People
Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Golf Good
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Games Golf New Something
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Ball Golf Jesus
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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Challenge Singing Sports
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Games Golf Persistence
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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Inspirational Motivational Sports
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
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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Accident Ball Moving Other Way
There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
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Exercise Memories Skill
I don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
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Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
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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Athlete Golfer Sports
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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Golf Important Next One
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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Dreaned Golf Holes Night
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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Golf Morning People
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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Golf Hate Pockets
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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Air Golf Sports
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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Champion Golf Men
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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Judging People Player
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
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Average Golf Problem
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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Done Golf Mean
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports

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