Motivation Quote by Lee Trevino

There is a particular kind of American honesty in claiming three hometown teams and one lifelong out-of-town obsession, and Trevino leans into it without apology. The sentence starts like civic duty: Dallas residence, Dallas loyalties, the expected roll call of Mavericks, Stars, Cowboys. Then he slips in the Cubs like a personal confession, the way people admit to a favorite diner back home or a band they loved before it was cool. The move matters: it separates public identity (where you live, what you’re supposed to support) from private attachment (what you chose, what chose you).

Coming from an athlete, the line also quietly rejects the idea that fandom must be rational, regional, or consistent. Trevino isn’t performing “pure” allegiance; he’s describing sports as companionship. “I enjoy watching them play” is deliberately plain, almost defensively so. No mythology, no talk of championships, no need to justify decades of near-misses. That understatement is the subtext: the Cubs, for most of Trevino’s life, weren’t a winner’s accessory. Pulling for them signaled patience, nostalgia, maybe even a taste for lovable futility.

Context does the heavy lifting. Trevino’s career was built on charisma and relatability, a working-class golfer who never pretended to be above the crowd. This quote extends that persona: sports as everyday pleasure, not tribal warfare. In an era when fandom is increasingly treated like identity politics, his casual dual citizenship feels almost radical - an insistence that you can belong to a place and still keep a private corner of your heart for somewhere else.