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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Lee Trevino

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Lee Trevino
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
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You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.
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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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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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The older I get, the better I used to be.
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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
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