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Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'
— Dan Jenkins
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
— Dan Jenkins
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
— Dan Jenkins
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
— Dan Jenkins
Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
— Dan Jenkins
Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
— Dan Jenkins
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
— Dan Jenkins
I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
— Dan Jenkins
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
— Dan Jenkins
Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
— Dan Jenkins
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
— Dan Jenkins
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
— Dan Jenkins
I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
— Dan Jenkins
All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
— Dan Jenkins
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
— Dan Jenkins
Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
— Dan Jenkins
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
— Dan Jenkins
I love Twitter.
— Dan Jenkins
My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
— Dan Jenkins
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
— Dan Jenkins
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
— Dan Jenkins
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
— Dan Jenkins
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
— Dan Jenkins
I hate political correctness.
— Dan Jenkins
There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
— Dan Jenkins
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
— Dan Jenkins
I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
— Dan Jenkins
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
— Dan Jenkins
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
— Dan Jenkins
I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
— Dan Jenkins
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
— Dan Jenkins
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
— Dan Jenkins
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
— Dan Jenkins
I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.
— Dan Jenkins
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
— Dan Jenkins
You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
— Dan Jenkins
There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
— Dan Jenkins
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
— Dan Jenkins
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
— Dan Jenkins
I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
— Dan Jenkins
I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
— Dan Jenkins
The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
— Dan Jenkins
Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
— Dan Jenkins
Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
— Dan Jenkins
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
— Dan Jenkins
Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
— Dan Jenkins
I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
— Dan Jenkins
I think a great athlete transcends eras.
— Dan Jenkins
Golf was never a religion to me.
— Dan Jenkins
The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
— Dan Jenkins
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
— Dan Jenkins
There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
— Dan Jenkins
There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
— Dan Jenkins
Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
— Dan Jenkins
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
— Dan Jenkins
I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.
— Dan Jenkins
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
— Dan Jenkins
Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.
— Dan Jenkins
The first president I met was L. B. J.
— Dan Jenkins
The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
— Dan Jenkins
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