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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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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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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.
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I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
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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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I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
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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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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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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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To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
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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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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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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'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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