Explore Quotes by Dan Jenkins

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

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!

I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.

I hate political correctness.

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.

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

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.

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.'

I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

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.'

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.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

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.

Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

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.