Lee Buck Trevino is an American retired professional golfer who is regarded as one of the greatest players in golf history. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981. Trevino won six major championships and 29 PGA Tour events over the course of his career. These Lee Trevino quotes will motivate you.
Famous Lee Trevino Quotes
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “The older I get, the better I used to be.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don’t have a dime in your pocket.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“You’re Mexican until you make money and then you’re Spanish.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“There are two things you can do with your head downplay golf and pray.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “99% of the putts that are short don’t go in the hole” ~ Lee Trevino
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“Just remember, somewhere there’s some guy who’s tired of putting up with her crap” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I’ve traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There’s not anything I’m scared of except my wife.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“I’m not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I’m in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Show me a golfer who doesn’t have a mean streak, and I’ll show you a weak competitor.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won’t be doing it for very long.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “It’s the most fun I’ve had with my clothes on.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I’m not scared of very much. I’ve been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don’t give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?” ~ Lee Trevino
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“Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “His nerve, his memory, and I can’t remember the third thing.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“When it comes to the game of life, I figure I’ve played the whole course.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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!”” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “[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.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I thought I’d blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I love Merion and I don’t even know her last name.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino Quotes
- “I never think of yesterday. Can’t do anything about it.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
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“I didn’t want to change the name on the towels.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “I have an orthopedic pillow that’s made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “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.” ~ Lee Trevino
