Lee Trevino Quotes

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

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

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

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

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.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

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

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.

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 may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

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

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 hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.

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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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.