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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 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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You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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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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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 love Merion and I don't even know her last name.
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I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
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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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I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
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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 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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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
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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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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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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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