Chi Chi Rodriguez Golf Quotations

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.

I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

He told me just to keep the ball low.

Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.