Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Lee Trevino - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

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

They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!"

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

There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls

Just remember, somewhere there's some guy who's tired of putting up with her crap

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.

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