Time & Perspective Quote by Lee Trevino

Trevino’s line lands like a grin with teeth: a golfer insisting that even his looseness is lethal. The first sentence swats away the idea of sport as pageant. “Dancing around” reads as both a jab at showmanship and a wink at the way people often framed him: the charismatic crowd-pleaser, the wisecracking outsider who made staid country-club golf feel human. He’s telling you not to confuse accessibility with softness.

The second sentence is the real flex, and it’s phrased with the plainspoken certainty of someone who’s had to argue for his seat at the table. “I expect to win” isn’t bravado for cameras; it’s a professional standard, a refusal to play the humble underdog in a game that loves pedigree. “Every time I tee up” is key: not “at the majors,” not “when I’m feeling it,” but every rep, every round. That’s the mentality that turns a long season into a job, not a mood.

Context matters: Trevino came up without the country-club pipeline, then made himself impossible to dismiss. The quote sits right in the 1960s-70s era when golf’s image was still buttoned-up, and his personality was often treated like an exception that needed explaining. He flips that script. The subtext is simple: you can laugh with me, you can watch me, but you’re not watching entertainment. You’re watching a man arriving to take your money.