Ben Hogan Quotes

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

I use the computers to maximize my efficiency and establish a baseline for my swing, but once I'm on the course, I don't think about any of that. I just play.

Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

It's been my experience that success in golf comes from not letting your mind wander from the shot you're about to hit.

Golf is day-to-day. It's shot to shot; it's not four days at a time.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

One of our big duties as a player is not to dwell on the past and stay in the now because that's the only way you're going to continue to move forward and be successful.

For me, it's just staying in the present, enjoying what I'm doing, and making sure I'm making the kind of improvements and moves forward that I want to.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf. There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it's time to play in competition, you don't want to think too many thoughts.

The adrenaline is very important for me when I go in to bat. That makes me tick, makes me think better. When your energy is up and running, you have a much better chance of doing well.

At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.