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

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

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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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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 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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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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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 in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
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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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I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
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I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
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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 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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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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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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