A biography for Lee Trevinohasn’t been written yet.
“I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.”
“I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.”
“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.”
“Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.”
“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.”
“My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.”
“I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.”
“All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.”
“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.”
“I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.”
“I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”