Top 100 Trevino Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#5. 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
#6. You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#7. no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are
Haven Trevino
#8. My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
#9. I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Lee Trevino
#10. 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
#11. If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
Lee Trevino
#12. I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
Lee Trevino
#13. There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls
Lee Trevino
#14. There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
Lee Trevino
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
Lee Trevino
#19. I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.
Lee Trevino
#20. With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!
Michael Trevino
#21. My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino
#22. 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
#23. I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
Lee Trevino
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
Lee Trevino
#27. I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
Lee Trevino
#29. 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
#30. I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.
Lee Trevino
#31. I never wanted anything so much, I've got to have one. I want a girl in a pickup truck.
Rick Trevino
#32. I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then,
Michael Trevino
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
Lee Trevino
#38. His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
Lee Trevino
#42. My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.
Lee Trevino
#43. I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
Lee Trevino
#44. 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
#45. Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Lee Trevino
#46. 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
#47. Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#48. 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
#49. My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
Lee Trevino
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
Lee Trevino
#56. When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
Lee Trevino
#57. I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
Lee Trevino
#58. I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
Lee Trevino
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
Lee Trevino
#62. You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Lee Trevino
#63. Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Lee Trevino
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
Lee Trevino
#69. I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.
Lee Trevino
#70. I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
Lee Trevino
#71. I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
Lee Trevino
#72. I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
Lee Trevino
#73. I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
Lee Trevino
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
Lee Trevino
#79. Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#80. You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.
Lee Trevino
#81. My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.
Lee Trevino
#82. I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.
Michael Trevino
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
Lee Trevino
#88. I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
Lee Trevino
#89. 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
#90. 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
#92. Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
Lee Trevino
#93. Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
Lee Trevino
#94. Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work
Lee Trevino
#95. I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
Lee Trevino
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. 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
