Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Hogan

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

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

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

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Good golf begins with a good grip.

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.

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

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

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.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

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

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

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

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

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