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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.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
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Chi Chi Rodriguez
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 23
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Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.
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I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.
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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.
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Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.
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I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.
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