Lee Trevino Golf Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nobody buy you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

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

At 15 we put down my bag to hunt for a ball, found the ball, lost the bag.

I do not know any player, who could strike a golf ball like he (Norman) can, as far as hitting it solid, knowing where it's going, knowing the mechanics of the game and knowing what he wanted to do with the golf ball.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A hungry dog hunts best.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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