Ben Hogan Quotes

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

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

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

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.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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 will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

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

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

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

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

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

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

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.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

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.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

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

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

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.

I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

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

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

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.

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.

Good golf begins with a good grip.

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?

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

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

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.

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

The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

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

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

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

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.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

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

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

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

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

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.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

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

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

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

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. 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.