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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
Spanish
Mexican
Money
Make

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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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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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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.
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Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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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 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 may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
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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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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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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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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
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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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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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