Tony Lema Quotes

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.