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.Collection: Funny
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Morning
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.Collection: Car
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
The older I get the better I used to be!
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
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.
You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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.
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.
All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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.
Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. 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.
My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
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.
His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There's only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address.
I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'
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.
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.
I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
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.
A hungry dog hunts best.
I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close in that situation, because they kept it low by just putting the ball back in their stance. You see, playing the ball back turns you into a one-trick pony - you can only hit hooks.
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.
The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.
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.
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.
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 still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
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 think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
I've played golf with three U.S presidents.