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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.

Ben Hogan

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Funny Games Golf
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Judging Swings
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGAN

Inspirational Motivational Sports
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Funny Sports
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
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.
BEN HOGAN

Driving Force People
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
BEN HOGAN

Bother Bothered People
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGAN

Opportunity Practice
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGAN

Disgrace Important Names
Good golf begins with a good grip.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Good
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Knees Monsters
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN

Friday Inspirational Sports
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Lying Water
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
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.
BEN HOGAN

Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Stroke Wife
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
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.
BEN HOGAN

Accident Ball Moving Other Way
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
BEN HOGAN

Greatest Improving Pleasure
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hair Swings
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing Sports
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
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.
BEN HOGAN

Champion Golf Men
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 HOGAN

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way

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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