Lee Trevino Quotes

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

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

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

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

A hungry dog hunts best.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

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

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

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

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

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

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.

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

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

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

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

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

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

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.