Latest Ben Hogan Quotes from Interviews

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• 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, Player, Iron

  Source: www.golf.com

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

  Ben Hogan

  Jesus, Golf, Balls

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• 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.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Games, Play

  Source: www.golf.com

• When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

  Ben Hogan

  Opportunity, Practice

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• You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls. I'd be at the practice tee at the crack of dawn, hit balls for a few hours, then take a break and get right back to it. And I still thoroughly enjoy it. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply - when anyone is - it's a joy that very few people experience.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Practice, People

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• 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.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Practice

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• 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.

  Ben Hogan

  Memories, Exercise, Skills

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