Top 90 Lee Trevino Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.”

— Lee Trevino

52. “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

53. “My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.”

— Lee Trevino

54. “We all choke, and the man who says he doesn’t choke is lying like hell.”

— Lee Trevino

55. “I’m really going to do my homework. I’m going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy’s wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.”

— Lee Trevino

56. “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

57. “No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.”

— Lee Trevino

58. “Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.”

— Lee Trevino

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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 swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.”

— Lee Trevino

62. “I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.”

— Lee Trevino

63. “I’m hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.”

— Lee Trevino

64. “I’ve seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.”

— Lee Trevino

65. “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.”

— Lee Trevino

66. “All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.”

— Lee Trevino

67. “I’m in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.”

— Lee Trevino

68. “I adore the game of golf. I won’t ever retire.”

— Lee Trevino

69. “When it comes to the game of life, I figure I’ve played the whole course.”

— Lee Trevino

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.”

— Lee Trevino

74. “I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.”

— Lee Trevino

75. “If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.”

— Lee Trevino

76. “I didn’t want to change the name on the towels.”

— Lee Trevino

77. “I never think of yesterday. Can’t do anything about it.”

— Lee Trevino

78. “I’m not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.”

— Lee Trevino

79. “One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.”

— Lee Trevino

80. “Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.”

— Lee Trevino

81. “My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.”

— Lee Trevino

82. “I keep lot of my opinions to myself.”

— Lee Trevino

83. “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

84. “I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.”

— Lee Trevino

85. “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

86. “Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn’t work.”

— Lee Trevino

87. “His nerve, his memory, and I can’t remember the third thing.”

— Lee Trevino

88. “Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I’ve always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.”

— Lee Trevino

89. “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

90. “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the money you make doing it that’s everything.”

— Lee Trevino

91. “Somewhere along the line I’ll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That’s all I want to be remembered for.”

— Lee Trevino

92. “When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.”

— Lee Trevino