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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

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Lee Trevino
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
Golfer
Dallas
Texas
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Black
Life
Caddies

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I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
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I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
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I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.
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You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
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Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
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I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.
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If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
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