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Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, Man, we shot 66! But go out and shoot 77, and they say Hell, he shot 77!

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Lee Trevino
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
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I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
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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 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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The older I get, the better I used to be.
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Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
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Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.
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They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.
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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
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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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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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