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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 may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
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Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.
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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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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 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 adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
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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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Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.
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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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You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
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There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
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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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Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.
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The older I get, the better I used to be.
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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
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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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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
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I didn't want to change the name on the towels.
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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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