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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: 84
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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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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All my life I had a rapport with black 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'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
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If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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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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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 believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.
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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
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When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
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Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
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