--- title: "6 Ball Quotes By Dan Jenkins" description: "6 Ball quotes by Dan Jenkins. Plus more from Dan Jenkins and more Ball sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/dan-jenkins-3942_amateur_historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-name_393808.png" --- > [Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-named-john-ball-once-captured/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/dan-jenkins-3942_amateur_historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-name_393808.png) > [You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/you-must-remind-yourself-at-all-times-that-the-golf-ball-is-nothing/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/dan-jenkins-3942_ball_you-must-remind-yourself-at-all-times-th_889661.jpg) > [I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/i-haven-t-looked-for-a-golf-ball-since-mulligans-were-free-which-was/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb3/dan-jenkins-3942_ball_i-haven-t-looked-for-a-golf-ball-since-m_1214132.png) > [The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/the-golf-ball-has-no-sense-at-all-which-is-why-it-has-to-be-given/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fa/dan-jenkins-3942_act_the-golf-ball-has-no-sense-at-all-which_1607721.png) > [The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/the-u-s-won-the-majors-29-11-in-the-1980s-that-s-when-tom-watson-and/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/dan-jenkins-3942_ball_the-u-s-won-the-majors-29-11-in-the-1980_2853961.png) > [Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/part-of-the-charm-of-basketball-lies-in-the-fact-that-it-s-a-simple/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/dan-jenkins-3942_areas_part-of-the-charm-of-basketball-lies-in_2893377.png) ## Other authors on Ball ## More by 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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/my-aunt-got-me-interested-in-journalism-she-found-an-old-typewriter/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/you-count-a-man-s-u-s-amateur-titles-after-he-starts-winning/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [Golf was never a religion to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/golf-was-never-a-religion-to-me/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/if-a-caddie-can-help-you-you-don-t-know-how-to-play-golf/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-was-a-time-when-caddies-couldn-t-wear-shorts/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/the-masters-while-it-has-slowly-gained-equal-importance-as-a-major/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/lonnie-says-it-doesn-t-take-long-to-write-a-song-if-you-re-stricken/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/if-you-re-a-friend-or-a-relative-of-george-herbert-walker-bush-prez/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [There are no Dave Marrs anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-are-no-dave-marrs-anymore/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/i-just-come-from-a-school-where-you-have-to-win-something-to-be/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-have-been-so-many-great-tournaments-that-i-ve-been-privileged/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/until-sammy-baugh-pro-football-in-texas-was-a-one-paragraph-story-on/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-named-john-ball-once-captured/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/who-is-the-best-the-sportswriter-who-wore-shorts-i-keep-trying-to/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) > [High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/high-school-golf-college-golf-and-the-decade-that-followed-all-come/) [Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ball/dan-jenkins/#itemlist", "name": "6 Ball Quotes By Dan Jenkins", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Jenkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-named-john-ball-once-captured/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/dan-jenkins-3942_amateur_historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-name_393808.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/dan-jenkins-3942_amateur_historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-name_393808.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/dan-jenkins-3942_amateur_historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-name_393808.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.” — Dan Jenkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. 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