Tony Lema

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It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Wall
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In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Partners
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Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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Don't take your bad shots home with you.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Home
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From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Swings
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The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Running
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Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Winning
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If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
- Tony Lema
Collection: Giving Up
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The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Golf
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I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.
- Tony Lema
Collection: Falling In Love