Ben Hogan Quotes

#1. 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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#2. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

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#3. Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

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#4. I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

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#5. I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

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#6. Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

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#7. When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

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#8. 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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#9. All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

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#10. 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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#11. Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

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#12. I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

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#17. I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.

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#18. Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

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#19. I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

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#20. 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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#21. This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

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#22. There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

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#23. I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

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#24. I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

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#25. The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

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#26. May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

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#27. 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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#28. You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

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#29. Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

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#30. Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

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#34. Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

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

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#36. 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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#37. The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

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#38. Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

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#39. Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

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#40. I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

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#41. Good golf begins with a good grip.

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#42. Hit the ball up to the hole ... You meet a better class of people up there.

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#43. Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

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#44. A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.

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#45. 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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#46. The most important shot in golf is the next one.

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#47. 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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#48. I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

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#49. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

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#50. If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

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