Lee Trevino Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

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

“I've played golf with three U.S presidents.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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. There's only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address.”

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

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

“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.”