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You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

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Lee Trevino
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
Golfer
Dallas
Texas
Mexican
Money
Make
Spanish

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I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
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I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
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Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
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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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The older I get, the better I used to be.
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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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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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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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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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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 use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
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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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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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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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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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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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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 not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
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