Best 87 quotes of Lee Trevino on MyQuotes

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

A hungry dog hunts best.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

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

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

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

[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.