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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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Lee Trevino
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
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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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You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.
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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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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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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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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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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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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
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I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
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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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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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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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My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
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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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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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