Ben Hogan Quotes

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

That's the great thing about golf is you never know who is going to win. On good, tough golf courses, it brings it back to the best players. But it's always the best player that week is going to win. I mean, so it could be anybody.

I'm a 12-handicap.

I love Quail Hollow. I think it's one of the big boy golf courses we play. I just don't think there's really a bad hole on it.

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

Obviously, if you make birdies, you can move up quickly.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.