Lee Trevino Quotes

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

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

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

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

The older I get, the better I used to be.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

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

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.

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

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'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

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

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!"

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

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

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.

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

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

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

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

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.

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

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

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

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

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

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

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.

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

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

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

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

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

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

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.