Dan Jenkins Quotes

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• Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.
• Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is…
• The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all…
• 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.
• A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
• If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.
• Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard -…
• Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.
• Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small…
• Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with…
• 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 about…
• The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie…
• Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads,…
• Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.
• Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for…
• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with…
• As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind…
• Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.
• Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.
• Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their…

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