Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Trevino

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

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

Lee Trevino

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

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

Lee Trevino

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Lee Trevino

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

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

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

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Lee Trevino

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Lee Trevino

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Lee Trevino

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Lee Trevino

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

Lawrence Jackson

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

Lawrence Schiller

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Lawrence Lessig

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Lauren Groff

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

Larry King

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Larry King

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

Lewis Hamilton

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Lewis Hamilton

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Lewis H. Lapham

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

Lewis Black

Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!

Joyce Maynard

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Julius Boros

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Joyce Brothers

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

Joyce Carol Oates

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Justin Bieber

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

Julianna Baggott

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

Juan Pablo Galavis

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

Karl Lagerfeld

Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.

Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered.