Quotes by Lee Trevino - Page 3

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 / Golfer
Inches
Play
Swings
Two
Love Good Way
Fan
Choking
Club
Effectively
Grips
Shaft
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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 / Golfer
Morning
Be Careful
Careful
Necks
Orthopedics
Pillow
Throat
Everywhere
Neck
Material
Plate
Sponge
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I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. 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 / Golfer
Positive
Bed
Deep Down
Every Night
Guy
Night
Yesterday
Die
Stay
Deep
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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 / Golfer
Advantage
Fall
Golf
Golf Course
Love Good Great
Drive
Ball
Course
In Fact
Straight
Putter
Saying
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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 / Golfer
Golf
Swings
Winning
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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 / Golfer
Business
Cemetery
Grandfather
Next
Next Time
One Day
Remember
Son
Time Myself Me
Time Business Myself
Opinions
Third
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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 / Golfer
Awful
Golf
Golf Game
Green
Inches
Synthetic
Nets
Swing
Weighted
Worst Thing
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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 / Golfer
Guy
Looks
Needs
Money People Feel
Deal
Hand
Pull
Spreading
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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 / Golfer
Inches
Shots
Love Good Enough
Choking
Effectively
Grips
Shaft
Situations
Swing
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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 / Golfer
Average
Dumb
Guy
Inspired
Matter
Numbers
Player
Woods
Chances
Find
Ever
Far
How Far
Inadvertently
Put
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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.
Lee Trevino / Golfer
Closing
Opening
Path
Position
Address
Ball
Changing
Curve
Liked
Guys
Hand
His Way
Jack
Jack Nicklaus
Reliable
Swing
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Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.
Lee Trevino / Golfer
Feels
Hitting
Range
Your Body
Good Your Body
Good Your Day
Hit
Shot
Bunker
Cart
Course
Good Day Your
Goes
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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 / Golfer
Hitting
Situation
Stance
Turns
Wind
Ball
Hit
Close
Fade
Hooks
Howling
Low
Pin
Pony
Putting
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Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.
Lee Trevino / Golfer
Big Deal
Dallas
Dark
Different
Felt
Growing Up
Laughed
Mexican
Pool
Prejudice
Racism
Ran
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Everybody
Actually
Sure
Allowed
Friend
Public
Deal
Scarred
Seem
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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 / Golfer
Broke
First Time
Good People
Ill
Lord
Old People
Time Good Religion
Jude
Test
Wants
Young People
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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 / Golfer
Doors
Fun
Golf
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[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 / Golfer
Golf
Player
Winning
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