Ben Hogan Quotes

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• I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
• The most important shot in golf is the next one.
• May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
• There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
• This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
• Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that…
• Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
• I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.
• I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.
• Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.
• I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
• I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
• I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.
• All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
• 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
• Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it
• There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
• Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

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