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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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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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The older I get, the better I used to be.
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I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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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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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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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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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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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 adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
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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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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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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 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 didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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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 Merion and I don't even know her last name.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
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