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

Lee Trevino

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Lee Trevino
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: December 1
Golfer
Dallas
Texas
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Spanish
Mexican
Money

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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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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 love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
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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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Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.
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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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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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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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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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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 not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
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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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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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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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