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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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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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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 not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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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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Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
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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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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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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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Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.
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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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