Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends. I think most of the rules of golf stink. They were written by guys who can't even break a hundred.

It's still embarrassing. I asked my caddie for a sand wedge, and ten minutes later he came back with a ham on rye. Rodriguez, on the perils of touring the USA with a Mexican accent.

I played like Doug Sanders and putted like Colonel Sanders.

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three footers for par.

I never exaggerate. I just think big.

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.

I've never played with the Lone Ranger before. Rodriguez on his partner Orville Moody, who wore a mask because he suffered from Hay fever.