Lee Trevino quotes

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Swings #Lunch

The older I get, the better I used to be.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Used

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Play #Two

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Hook

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Swim #Months

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
-- Lee Trevino

#Real #Golf #Hands

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Pockets #Dollars

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Husband #Games

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Thinking #Games

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Play #Two

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
-- Lee Trevino

#Texas #Dallas #Different

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Marine #Years

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
-- Lee Trevino

#Senior #Sports #Nice

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Games #Tomatoes

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
-- Lee Trevino

#Funny #Golf #Turtles

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
-- Lee Trevino

#Iron #Thunderstorm #Middle

I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Names #Lasts

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.
-- Lee Trevino

#World #Helping #Counseling

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Respect #Olympics

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Golf #Iron

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Winning #Years

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Workout #Two

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Woods #Plant

A hungry dog hunts best.
-- Lee Trevino

#Dog #Golf #Hungry

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
-- Lee Trevino

#America #Wife #World

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Perseverance #Golf

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #World #Columbus

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.
-- Lee Trevino

#Crazy #Enough #Shots

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.
-- Lee Trevino

#Player #Lines #Want

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on.
-- Lee Trevino

#Fun #Golf #Clothes

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Giving #Gutters

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Games

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Mexican #Labor

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.
-- Lee Trevino

#Mean #Golf #Weak

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Men #Caddies

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
-- Lee Trevino

#Distance #Golf #Long

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Play #Two

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Two #Plant

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Swings #Lessons

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Winning #Player

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Swings #Way

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
-- Lee Trevino

#Thinking #Accomplishment #Olympian

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Sweat #Mouths

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
-- Lee Trevino

#Funny #Marriage #Sports

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
-- Lee Trevino

#Use #Palms

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Stars #Cowboy

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
-- Lee Trevino

#Basketball #Sports #Player

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
-- Lee Trevino

#Funny #Dog #Two

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
-- Lee Trevino

#Yards #Goes On #World

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Thinking #Journey

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
-- Lee Trevino

#Simple #Hands #Pairs

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.
-- Lee Trevino

#Two #Swings #Play

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
-- Lee Trevino

#Winning

My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.
-- Lee Trevino

#Doctors #Years #Jogging

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
-- Lee Trevino

#Children #Taken #Quality

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.
-- Lee Trevino

#Years #Next Year #Hell

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Caddies #Care

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
-- Lee Trevino

#Morning #Orthopedics #Necks

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Golf #President

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Kings #Interesting

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Names #Want

I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Giving #Mexico

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Two #Plans

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.
-- Lee Trevino

#Pride #Golf #Play

I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Night #Practice

Grizzly Adams did have a beard
-- Lee Trevino

#Beard #Grizzlies

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Golf #Games

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.
-- Lee Trevino

#Doors #Complaining #Next

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Mouths #Quiet

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Arms #Crosses

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Lying #Men

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
-- Lee Trevino

#Telephones

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Mexican #Traps

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.
-- Lee Trevino

#Believe #Eagles #Lasts

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Winning #Dancing

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Winning #Swings

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
-- Lee Trevino

#Thinking #Yesterday

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
-- Lee Trevino

#Kids #Golf #Age

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.
-- Lee Trevino

#Opinion

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
-- Lee Trevino

#Dog #Golf #Two

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #People #Car

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
-- Lee Trevino

#Memories #Golf #Nerves

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
-- Lee Trevino

#Sports #Golf #Hobbies

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
-- Lee Trevino

#Black #Caddies #Rapport

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
-- Lee Trevino

#Home #Divorce #Golf

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.
-- Lee Trevino

#Fishing #Focus #Bass