Ben Hogan Golf Quotations

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

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.

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 are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

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.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

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

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.

What in the world am I doing in a golf course where guys shoot 61?

Why Don't you aim more to the right?

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