Explore Quotes by Dan Jenkins

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

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.

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.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.

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.

Golf was never a religion to me.

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.

I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.

Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

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.

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

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.

There are no Dave Marrs anymore.

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

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.

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

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.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.