Lee Trevino Quotes

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

When you plan something, it never works.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

Everything's not always perfect.

When expectations are really high, you're doomed.

Ever since I've been at Arsenal, we've had numerous quality players, and the whole squad had been very strong. It just seemed that in the big games we came up short sometimes, and you wonder why.

People who come to see me have expectations. If I don't live up to those expectations, I'd be a failure.

Yes, there are moments when it's frustrating where you can't put the ball where you want it and you make mistakes.

As a striker, what you got used to on a daily basis, it is to be applauded when you score goals. When the opposite happens, it's difficult.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.