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    Ben Hogan

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

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    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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    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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    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.

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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.

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

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

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    Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

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    Good golf begins with a good grip.

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

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    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.

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

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    I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

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

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

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    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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    If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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

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    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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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    Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

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    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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    The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

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    The most important shot in golf is the next one.

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    The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

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    There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

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    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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    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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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    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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    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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    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.