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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: 84
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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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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 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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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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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'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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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
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Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
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Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
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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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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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