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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Ben Hogan

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Ben Hogan
Age: 84 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 13
Died: 1997
Died: July 25
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People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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