Ben Hogan Quotes

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.

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

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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