Lee Trevino Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.
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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.
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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.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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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.
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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
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I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
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There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
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I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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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.
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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
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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.