Lee Trevino Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lee Trevino
Lee Trevino Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
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.
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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.
I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.
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.
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!"
If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.
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.
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.
My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.
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.
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.
To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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.
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.
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
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.
I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.
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.