Ben Hogan quotes

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
- Ben Hogan

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.
- Ben Hogan

The most important shot in golf is the next one.
- Ben Hogan

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
- Ben Hogan

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

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

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.
- Ben Hogan

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.
- Ben Hogan

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

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

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

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

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

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
- Ben Hogan

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.
- Ben Hogan

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
- Ben Hogan

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.
- Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.
- Ben Hogan

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

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

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.
- Ben Hogan

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

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

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

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

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

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.
- Ben Hogan

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?
- Ben Hogan

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