Top 90 Lee Trevino Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The older I get, the better I used to be.”

— Lee Trevino

2. “A hungry dog hunts best.”

— Lee Trevino

3. “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.”

— Lee Trevino

4. “There are two things you can do with your head down – play golf and pray.”

— Lee Trevino

5. “You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.”

— Lee Trevino

6. “It’s the most fun I’ve had with my clothes on.”

— Lee Trevino

7. “I’m going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.”

— Lee Trevino

8. “Just remember, somewhere there’s some guy who’s tired of putting up with her crap.”

— Lee Trevino

9. “Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.”

— Lee Trevino

10. “Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.”

— Lee Trevino

11. “My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.”

— Lee Trevino

12. “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

13. “I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.”

— Lee Trevino

14. “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.”

— Lee Trevino

15. “My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.”

— Lee Trevino

16. “I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.”

— Lee Trevino

17. “I’m a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn’t help me.”

— Lee Trevino

18. “99% of the putts that are short don’t go in the hole.”

— Lee Trevino

19. “Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won’t be doing it for very long.”

— Lee Trevino

20. “Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.”

— Lee Trevino

21. “You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.”

— Lee Trevino

22. “I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.”

— Lee Trevino

23. “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

24. “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

25. “I love Merion and I don’t even know her last name.”

— Lee Trevino

26. “Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.”

— Lee Trevino

27. “You’re Mexican until you make money and then you’re Spanish.”

— Lee Trevino

28. “I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.”

— Lee Trevino

29. “My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time.”

— Lee Trevino

30. “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

31. “Grizzly Adams did have a beard.”

— Lee Trevino

32. “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

33. “Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.”

— Lee Trevino

34. “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

35. “I’m not scared of very much. I’ve been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.”

— Lee Trevino

36. “I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.”

— Lee Trevino

37. “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

38. “There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.”

— Lee Trevino

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don’t have a dime in your pocket.”

— Lee Trevino

43. “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

44. “I thought I’d blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.”

— Lee Trevino

45. “I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.”

— Lee Trevino

46. “Show me a golfer who doesn’t have a mean streak, and I’ll show you a weak competitor.”

— Lee Trevino

47. “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.”

— Lee Trevino

48. “How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.”

— Lee Trevino

49. “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

50. “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