Trevino Quotes & Sayings

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. — Jack Nicklaus

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro. — Lee Trevino

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!" — Lee Trevino

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on. — Lee Trevino

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

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life. — Lee Trevino

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 — Lee Trevino

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

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. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting. — Clive James

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. — Lee Trevino

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything. — Lee Trevino

When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made. — Michael Trevino

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. — Lee Trevino

I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter. — Lee Trevino

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 swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations. — Lee Trevino

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

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. — Lee Trevino

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor. — Lee Trevino

There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls — Lee Trevino

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun. — Lee Trevino

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

I'm a boxer-briefs guy. — Michael Trevino

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. — Lee Trevino

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player. — Lee Trevino

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine. — Lee Trevino

99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole — Lee Trevino

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 — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself. — Michael Trevino

You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams. — Rick Trevino

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

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you. — Lee Trevino

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.' — Lee Trevino

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

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

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. — Lee Trevino

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person. — Tiger Woods

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

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

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars. — Lee Trevino

Take a trip in my mind
see all that I've seen,
and you'd be called a
beast, not a human being ...
Fuck it, cause there's
not much I can do,
there's no way out, my
screams have no voice no
matter how loud I shout ...
I could be called a
low life, but life ain't
as low as me. I'm
in juvenile hall headed
for the penitentiary.
George Trevino, sixteen, Who Am I? — Edward Humes

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

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

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

I love my little sister to death — Michael Trevino

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino

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

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

I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them. — Lee Trevino

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere. — Lee Trevino

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me. — Lee Trevino

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that. — Michael Trevino

I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something. — Lee Trevino

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

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

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

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish. — Lee Trevino

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base. — Michael Trevino

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible. — Lee Trevino

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

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I didn't want to change the name on the towels. — Lee Trevino

If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio. — Lee Trevino

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else. — Lee Trevino

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. — Lee Trevino

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

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine. — Lee Trevino

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course. — Lee Trevino

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list. — Lee Trevino

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. — Lee Trevino

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

Live in the moment and be present in all that you do. Don't worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what's going to happen tomorrow. Stay focused with what's in front of you. — Michael Trevino

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

They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet. — Lee Trevino

I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie. — Michael Trevino

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete. — Jack Nicklaus

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. — Lee Trevino

With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler! — Michael Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

I've played golf with three U.S presidents. — Lee Trevino

[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. — Lee Trevino

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

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. — Lee Trevino

no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are — Haven Trevino

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars. — Lee Trevino

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. — Lee Trevino

Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead. — Lee Trevino