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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
Make
Spanish
Mexican
Money

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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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Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
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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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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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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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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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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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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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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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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 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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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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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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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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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 adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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