Lee Trevino Quotes
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.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
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I loved junior golf.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.
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I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
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I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.
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I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.
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I believe I was a codependent out of the womb and have been struggling to free myself from its vice-like grip for many, many years.
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When you hear 'experience,' that's all about resume. And Obama didn't have the resume. But we knew, long before that, 'steady in a crisis' was much more important than 'experience.' When you watched the presidential campaign, you saw that Obama was the one who happened to be steady... He demonstrated aspects of his character people were hungry for.
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The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
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I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.
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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.
